Gender equity of authorship in pulmonary medicine over the past decade

Gender disparity in authorship broadly persists in medical literature, little is known about female authorship within pulmonary medicine. A bibliometric analysis of publications from 2012 to 2021 in 12 journals with the highest impact in pulmonary medicine was conducted. Only original research and review articles were included. Names of the first and last authors were extracted and their genders were identified using the Gender-API web. Female authorship was described by overall distribution and distribution by country/region/continent and journal. We compared the article citations by gender combinations, evaluated the trend in female authorship, and forecasted when parity for first and last authorship would be reached. We also conducted a systematic review of female authorship in clinical medicine. 14,875 articles were included, and the overall percentage of female first authors was higher than last authors (37.0% vs 22.2%, p