Mapping the author gender distribution of disease-specific medical research
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The document reports on a study that mapped the gender distribution of authors in medical research on different diseases. It analyzed over 1.5 million medical research papers categorized by disease terms. It found that research into diseases related directly to the female body or that take more "soft" approaches tends to have a higher proportion of female authors. The study aims to further examine variation in gender patterns within medical specialties and countries and how gender diversity may impact funding and research outcomes.
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Mapping the author gender distribution of disease-specific medical research
- 1. DANISH CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN RESEARCH AND RESEARCH POLICY DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AARHUS UNIVERSITY POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER 15 SEPTEMBER 2016 JENS PETER ANDERSEN 2 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INDICATORS CONFERENCE 2016 MAPPING THE AUTHOR GENDER-DISTRIBUTION OF DISEASE-SPECIFIC MEDICAL RESEARCH Jens Peter Andersen, Jesper Wiborg Schneider & Mathias Wullum Nielsen Danish Centre for Studies on Research and Research Policy, Aarhus University & History Department, Stanford University
- 2. DANISH CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN RESEARCH AND RESEARCH POLICY DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AARHUS UNIVERSITY POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER 15 SEPTEMBER 2016 JENS PETER ANDERSEN 2 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INDICATORS CONFERENCE 2016 Call for Diversity: Underrepresentation of women in biomedical research (PNAS) NIH, EU, LERU: Diversity => enhance knowledge outcomes Is there a ghettoisation of female-dominated health research? Underrepresentation of female patients in clinical evidence base, e.g. for cardiovascular health PREMISE
- 3. DANISH CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN RESEARCH AND RESEARCH POLICY DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AARHUS UNIVERSITY POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER 15 SEPTEMBER 2016 JENS PETER ANDERSEN 2 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INDICATORS CONFERENCE 2016 xkcd.com/385/
- 4. DANISH CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN RESEARCH AND RESEARCH POLICY DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AARHUS UNIVERSITY POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER 15 SEPTEMBER 2016 JENS PETER ANDERSEN 2 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INDICATORS CONFERENCE 2016 Gender shapes cognition, experience and perspective. Gender diversity => conglomeration of worldviews, orientations and interests that women, men and other genders bring into the scientific enterprise BRIEF PRIMER ON GENDER
- 5. DANISH CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN RESEARCH AND RESEARCH POLICY DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AARHUS UNIVERSITY POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER 15 SEPTEMBER 2016 JENS PETER ANDERSEN 2 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INDICATORS CONFERENCE 2016 PubMed Medline records matched to Web of Science PubMed: Medical subject headings (MeSH) => disease categorisation MATERIAL
- 6. DANISH CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN RESEARCH AND RESEARCH POLICY DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AARHUS UNIVERSITY POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER 15 SEPTEMBER 2016 JENS PETER ANDERSEN 2 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INDICATORS CONFERENCE 2016 All MeSH Categories Diseases Category Animal Diseases Abortion, Veterinary + Actinobacillosis Bacterial Infections and Mycoses Bacterial Infections + Central Nervous System Infections + Cardiovascular Diseases Cardiovascular Abnormalities + Cardiovascular Infections + Heart Diseases + MESH
- 7. DANISH CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN RESEARCH AND RESEARCH POLICY DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AARHUS UNIVERSITY POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER 15 SEPTEMBER 2016 JENS PETER ANDERSEN 2 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INDICATORS CONFERENCE 2016 DATA All documents (2008-2015) n = 2,512,37 n = 2,124,498 n = 1,754,188 Docs matched to Wos, gender determined for all authors n = 1,542,050 Gender not determined for 1+ author(s) n = 212,138 Group authors, first name length = 1 n = 370,310 Unable to match to WoS n = 387,873
- 8. DANISH CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN RESEARCH AND RESEARCH POLICY DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AARHUS UNIVERSITY POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER 15 SEPTEMBER 2016 JENS PETER ANDERSEN 2 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INDICATORS CONFERENCE 2016 DETERMING GENDER KIM? KIM Denmark 2% 98% South Korea 68% 32% USA 68% 32%
- 9. DANISH CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN RESEARCH AND RESEARCH POLICY DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AARHUS UNIVERSITY POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER 15 SEPTEMBER 2016 JENS PETER ANDERSEN 2 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INDICATORS CONFERENCE 2016 Each author of a paper is assigned a probability of being female, f, extracted from gender- api.com Each paper is assigned a weighted probability, fw = sum(f)/n Other options: binary f, f(first author), f(last author) GENDER INDICATOR
- 10. DANISH CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN RESEARCH AND RESEARCH POLICY DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AARHUS UNIVERSITY POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER 15 SEPTEMBER 2016 JENS PETER ANDERSEN 2 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INDICATORS CONFERENCE 2016 N mesh disease terms = 4,709 fw for all mesh = 0.35 (~ Gaussian) OVERALL FINDINGS
- 11. All MeSH
- 15. DANISH CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN RESEARCH AND RESEARCH POLICY DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AARHUS UNIVERSITY POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER 15 SEPTEMBER 2016 JENS PETER ANDERSEN 2 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INDICATORS CONFERENCE 2016 GENDER PER DISEASE
- 16. DANISH CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN RESEARCH AND RESEARCH POLICY DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AARHUS UNIVERSITY POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER 15 SEPTEMBER 2016 JENS PETER ANDERSEN 2 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INDICATORS CONFERENCE 2016 DISCUSSION Female-dominated research: Female body-specific diseases softer approaches, communication Further research: Variation in and among medical specialties Accounting for country Connection between funding for diseases and gender diversity Impact
- 17. 2 DANISH CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN RESEARCH AND RESEARCH POLICY DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AARHUS UNIVERSITY THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!