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Assessment of female authorship in Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery (JNIS) publications in 2016–2020
  1. Kainaat Javed1,2,
  2. Dorothea Altschul3,4,
  3. Felipe C Albuquerque5,
  4. Joshua A Hirsch6
  1. 1 Neurological Surgery, Yeshiva University Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
  2. 2 Neurological Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA
  3. 3 Neurosurgery, Valley Hospital, Neurosurgeons of NJ, Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA
  4. 4 Neurology, NYU, New York, New York, USA
  5. 5 Department of Neurosurgery, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
  6. 6 NeuroEndovascular Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Dorothea Altschul, Valley Hospital, Ridgewood, USA; daltschul{at}neurosurgerynj.com

Abstract

Background Since female neurointerventionalists make up a minority of the work force, the contributions this group has made to academic scholarship should be highlighted.

Objective The main objective of this project was to identify all of the recent papers published in the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery (JNIS) by female first authors or last authors over 5 years.

Methods The online issues of JNIS from January 2016 through December 2020 were reviewed. Data were collected on the number and types of articles published monthly. For each article, the gender of the first author and the senior author was evaluated. Bivariate analyses were performed to compare female authorship trends between 2016 and 2020.

Results In 2016, 38 (14.8%) of the 257 articles published had female involvement compared with 60 (22.8%) of 263 articles in 2020 (p=0.019). In 2016, 9.7% of all articles had a female first author only, 3.9% had a female last author only, and 1.2% had both a female first and last author. In 2020, the percentages increased to 14.5%, 6.5%, and 1.9% respectively. Over 80% of the articles published in 2016 and 2020 by female authors were original research articles. One editorial commentary and two special topic articles were published by female authors in 2020 compared with none in 2016.

Conclusion More papers were published by female authors in JNIS in 2020 relative to 2016. Most of these papers had a female first author, and were original research articles.

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https://doi.org/10.1136/neurintsurg-2021-018457

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    • Contributors KJ and DA composed the initial draft of the manuscript. FA and JH revised and edited the manuscript. All authors approved of the final version of the manuscript prior to submission for publication.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests Three of the authors, Dr Altschul, Dr Hirsch and Dr Albuquerque, are on the editorial board of JNIS. Dr Altschul is a consultant for Siemens, and her spouse is a consultant for Microvention and Stryker. Dr Hirsch is a grant recipient of the Neiman Health Policy Institute. There are no other conflicts of interest to report. DA is the guarantor of this study.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.