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Twenty year trends in female first authorship in medical journals

A study in the British Medical Journal examined the sex of first authors in six of the highest impact medical journals (Annals of Internal Medicine, Archives of Internal Medicine, The BMJ, JAMA, The Lancet, and the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)) and found that the proportion of research article first authors who are women rose from 27% in 1994 to 37% in 2014.Continue reading “Twenty year trends in female first authorship in medical journals”