Gender disparities in scholarly productivity of US academic surgeons

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• 作者：Claudia M. Mueller ; PhD ; MD ; ^{clmueller@stanfordchildrens.org" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Dyani K. Gaudilliere ; DMD ; MS ; Cindy Kin ; MD ; Roseanne Menorca ; BS ; Sabine Girod ; MD ; DDS ; PhD
• 关键词：Gender differences ; Cohort analysis ; Publication rate ; Academic surgery
• 刊名：Journal of Surgical Research
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：1 June 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：203
• 期：1
• 页码：28-33
• 全文大小：770 K

文摘

Female surgeons have faced significant challenges to promotion over the past decades, with attrition rates supporting a lack of improvement in women's position in academia. We examine gender disparities in research productivity, as measured by the number of citations, publications, and h-indices, across six decades.

Materials and methods

The online profiles of full-time faculty members of surgery departments of three academic centers were reviewed. Faculty members were grouped into six cohorts by decade, based on year of graduation from medical school. Differences between men and women across cohorts as well as by academic rank were examined.

Results

The profiles of 978 surgeons (234 women and 744 men) were reviewed. The number of female faculty members in the institutions increased significantly over time, reaching the current percentage of 35.3%. Significant differences in number of articles published were noted at the assistant and full but not at the associate, professor level. Women at these ranks had fewer publications than men. Gender differences were also found in all age cohorts except among the most recent who graduated in the 2000s. The impact of publications, as measured by h-index and number of citations, was not consistently significantly different between the genders at any age or rank.

Conclusions

We identified a consistent gender disparity in the number of publications for female faculty members across a 60-year span. Although the youngest cohort, those who graduated in the 2000s, appeared to avoid the gender divide, our data indicate that overall women still struggle with productivity in the academic arena.