Gender authorship trends in spine research publications - Research across different countries from 1976 to 2020

Rinchen D Phurtag; Sonja Häckel; Lorin M Benneker; Kara B Liu; Christoph E Albers; Sufian S Ahmad; Moritz C Deml

doi:10.1016/j.bas.2022.100889

Gender authorship trends in spine research publications - Research across different countries from 1976 to 2020

Brain Spine. 2022 Apr 15:2:100889. doi: 10.1016/j.bas.2022.100889. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Rinchen D Phurtag¹, Sonja Häckel¹, Lorin M Benneker¹, Kara B Liu², Christoph E Albers¹, Sufian S Ahmad³, Moritz C Deml¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, University Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
² Department of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States.
³ Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité-University Medical Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Abstract

•Gender trends in authorship showed an increase in female authors from 1976 to 2020.•In 2020, Europe had the highest and Asia the lowest proportion of female authors.•The Netherlands had the highest proportion of women and Japan the lowest.