Gender Equality in High-Quality Anesthesiology Research - A Descriptive Bibliometric Study on Scientific Authorships

Abstract

Background: As in other scientific disciplines, medicine has undergone a huge movement in sex distribution due to an increasing number of women entering the field. The effects of this shift on gender equality in anesthesiology research are discussed in this study. Authorships in medical publications provide information of the grade of the author within the medical discipline. As a result, they can be used as indicators for integration within medical research. The central aspect of this analysis included the examination of the assignment of authorships between male and female researchers in anesthesiology research. Methods: This