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ArticleRadiology2021

Author Gender Inequality in Medical Imaging Journals and the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Elske Quak, Gilles Girault, Marie Aude Thenint, Kathleen Weyts, Justine Lequesne, Charline Lasnon

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Article in Radiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  8. Female Authors in Nuclear Medicine Journals: A Survey from 2014 to 2020.Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine · 2022
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  13. Scientific authorship by gender: trends before and during a global pandemic.Humanities & social sciences communications · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Elske QuakFrom the Department of Nuclear Medicine (E.Q., K.W., C.L.), Medical Library (G.G.), Department of Radiology (M.A.T.), and Department of Biostatistics (J.L.), UNICANCER, Comprehensive Cancer Centre François Baclesse, Avenue Général Harris, 14076 Caen, France; and Normandy University, UNICAEN, INSERM 1086 ANTICIPE, Caen, France (C.L.).ORCID 0000-0003-0791-9899
Gilles GiraultFrom the Department of Nuclear Medicine (E.Q., K.W., C.L.), Medical Library (G.G.), Department of Radiology (M.A.T.), and Department of Biostatistics (J.L.), UNICANCER, Comprehensive Cancer Centre François Baclesse, Avenue Général Harris, 14076 Caen, France; and Normandy University, UNICAEN, INSERM 1086 ANTICIPE, Caen, France (C.L.).ORCID 0000-0003-2140-8227
Marie Aude ThenintFrom the Department of Nuclear Medicine (E.Q., K.W., C.L.), Medical Library (G.G.), Department of Radiology (M.A.T.), and Department of Biostatistics (J.L.), UNICANCER, Comprehensive Cancer Centre François Baclesse, Avenue Général Harris, 14076 Caen, France; and Normandy University, UNICAEN, INSERM 1086 ANTICIPE, Caen, France (C.L.).
Kathleen WeytsFrom the Department of Nuclear Medicine (E.Q., K.W., C.L.), Medical Library (G.G.), Department of Radiology (M.A.T.), and Department of Biostatistics (J.L.), UNICANCER, Comprehensive Cancer Centre François Baclesse, Avenue Général Harris, 14076 Caen, France; and Normandy University, UNICAEN, INSERM 1086 ANTICIPE, Caen, France (C.L.).
Justine LequesneFrom the Department of Nuclear Medicine (E.Q., K.W., C.L.), Medical Library (G.G.), Department of Radiology (M.A.T.), and Department of Biostatistics (J.L.), UNICANCER, Comprehensive Cancer Centre François Baclesse, Avenue Général Harris, 14076 Caen, France; and Normandy University, UNICAEN, INSERM 1086 ANTICIPE, Caen, France (C.L.).ORCID 0000-0001-7046-1003
Charline LasnonFrom the Department of Nuclear Medicine (E.Q., K.W., C.L.), Medical Library (G.G.), Department of Radiology (M.A.T.), and Department of Biostatistics (J.L.), UNICANCER, Comprehensive Cancer Centre François Baclesse, Avenue Général Harris, 14076 Caen, France; and Normandy University, UNICAEN, INSERM 1086 ANTICIPE, Caen, France (C.L.).ORCID 0000-0001-5643-1668

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background Early reports show the unequal effect the COVID-19 pandemic might have on men versus women engaged in medical research. Purpose To investigate whether the COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on scientific publishing by female physicians in medical imaging. Materials and Methods The authors conducted a descriptive bibliometric analysis of the gender of the first and last authors of manuscripts submitted to the top 50 medical imaging journals from March to May 2020 (

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AuthorshipBibliometricsCOVID-19Biomedical ResearchFemaleHumansMalePandemicsPeriodicals as TopicQuarantineSARS-CoV-2Sexism

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PMID33724061
PMCPMC7983071

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