Persistent Gender Disparity in Authorship of Arthroscopic Surgery Research

• DOI: 10.1016/j.asmr.2025.101076
• Publication Date: 2025-01-10T01:45:36Z
• Authors: Uma Balachandran; Auston R. Locke; Niklas H. Koehne; Charu Jain; Camila Vicioso; Jiwoo Park; Katrina S. Nietsch; Alexis C. Colvin

To examine how the gender of first and last authors annual meeting abstracts journal articles from a related source have changed between 2012 2022. All original research published to 2022 were extracted websites The Arthroscopy Association North America Arthroscopy: Journal Arthroscopic Related Surgery, respectively. full names analyzed with validated Genderize algorithm. Analyses performed evaluate authorship articles. Of 850 abstracts, 845 (99.4%) had an identifiable first-author 843 (99.2%) last-author gender. proportion female increased 9.2% in 15.2% 2022, whereas decreased 13.5% 12.3% 4,811 articles, 4,744 (98.6%) author 4,767 (99.1%) 10.4% 16.8% 19.0% 9.1% For both was not significantly associated presence author. Between 2021 there significant increase examined this study. However, similar seen among authors. It is important representation who publish arthroscopic understand greater balance may be achieved.