GENDER DISPARITY AND THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF PUBLICATIONS IN MEDICINE FIELD

• Grant number: 22/12603-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2023
• End date: May 31, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Medicine
• Principal Investigator: Crystian Bitencourt Soares de Oliveira
• Grantee: Fernanda Kristina Carneiro
• Host Institution: Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação. Universidade do Oeste Paulista (UNOESTE). Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Background: The female gender has been increasingly present in the academic scenario, however, women are still underrepresented in prestigious positions related to authorship of publications in health life sciences and medicine. The impact of a published article received a complementary approach with the emergence of Alternative Metrics or "Altmetrics". The Altmetrics provides an indicator of the amount of attention that a publication received on social media and reference managers. However, it is unknown whether the gender of the researchers in the publications has influenced these new metrics.Objective: To investigate the relationship between the gender of the first and last authors with the social impact of the publications, measured using Altmetrics.Methods: Searches will be performed in the Web of Science Journal Citation Reports database to identify the 10 journals with the highest 2-year journal impact factor between 2016 and 2018 in the Medicine category. Eligibility criteria will be any randomised controlled trials or systematic reviews from the Medicine field in 2018. Data extraction will be performed considering the gender of first and last author, Altmetric scores and other quantitative measures (i.e., number of citations and the impact factor of the journal). In addition, the methodological quality will be performed using validated tools. Linear and multivariate regression models will be performed to investigate the association between the gender of the first and last authors with the number of citations and Altmetrics score.