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Tytuł:
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Sex Distribution of Editorial Board Members Among Emergency Medicine Journals.
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Autorzy:
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Gottlieb M; Department of Emergency Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL. Electronic address: .
Krzyzaniak SM; Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria, IL.
Mannix A; Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL.
Parsons M; Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL.
Mody S; Department of Emergency Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY.
Kalantari A; Department of Emergency Medicine, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA.
Ashraf H; Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria, IL.
Chan TM; Department of Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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Źródło:
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Annals of emergency medicine [Ann Emerg Med] 2021 Jan; Vol. 77 (1), pp. 117-123. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 May 04.
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Typ publikacji:
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Journal Article
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Język:
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English
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Imprint Name(s):
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Publication: St. Louis, MO : Mosby
Original Publication: [Lansing, Mich., American College of Emergency Physicians]
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MeSH Terms:
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Sex Distribution*
Emergency Medicine/*statistics & numerical data
Periodicals as Topic/*statistics & numerical data
Cross-Sectional Studies ; Female ; Humans ; Male
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Entry Date(s):
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Date Created: 20200508 Date Completed: 20210125 Latest Revision: 20210125
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Update Code:
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20240105
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DOI:
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10.1016/j.annemergmed.2020.03.027
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PMID:
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32376090
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Study Objective: Previous studies have demonstrated that a sex disparity exists in the editorial boards of select specialties. However, there are limited data with respect to emergency medicine. We seek to determine the sex distribution of editors in chief and editorial board members among emergency medicine journals.
Methods: In this cross-sectional survey, we compiled a list of all emergency medicine journals, using the Scimago Journal & Country Rank on August 13, 2019. We excluded journals that were no longer published, were not emergency medicine journals, had rotating editorial boards for each issue, or had no first names listed. We obtained the sex and editorial board role by using publicly available data on the journal Web sites. We assigned sex according to knowledge of the member or his or her online faculty profile and used the Genderize program (Genderize.io, Roskilde, Denmark) when sex could not be determined with the above-mentioned approach. We report descriptive statistics for the categoric data, stratified by position (editor in chief, editorial board member, social media editor, resident/fellow member) and country.
Results: We identified 73 journals in Scimago; 37 met inclusion criteria, with data available to determine the sex in 99.5% of cases. There were 46 total editors in chief, with only 4 (8.7%) being women. Of 1,477 total editorial board members, only 241 were women (16.3%), with a range of 0% to 33.3% per journal. We found that 28.6% of social media editors (2/7) at 4 journals and 70% of resident or fellow editors (7/10) at 5 journals were women.
Conclusion: There is a notable sex disparity among emergency medicine journals' editors in chief and editorial board members. Efforts should be made to improve sex distribution among editorial boards.
(Copyright © 2020 American College of Emergency Physicians. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
