Female Authorship in Preclinical Cardiovascular Research

Alisha Labinaz; Jeffrey A. Marbach, MBBS; Richard G. Jung, BSc; Robert Moreland, MD; Pouya Motazedian, MD; Pietro Di Santo, MD; Aisling A. Clancy, MD, MSc; Zachary MacDonald, MD; Trevor Simard, MD; Benjamin Hibbert, MD, PhD; F. Daniel Ramirez, MD

JACC: Basic to Translational Science (Aug 2019)

Female Authorship in Preclinical Cardiovascular Research

Alisha Labinaz,
Jeffrey A. Marbach, MBBS,
Richard G. Jung, BSc,
Robert Moreland, MD,
Pouya Motazedian, MD,
Pietro Di Santo, MD,
Aisling A. Clancy, MD, MSc,
Zachary MacDonald, MD,
Trevor Simard, MD,
Benjamin Hibbert, MD, PhD,
F. Daniel Ramirez, MD

Affiliations

Alisha Labinaz: CAPITAL Research Group, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Vascular Biology and Experimental Medicine Laboratory, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Faculty of Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Jeffrey A. Marbach, MBBS: CAPITAL Research Group, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Richard G. Jung, BSc: CAPITAL Research Group, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Vascular Biology and Experimental Medicine Laboratory, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Robert Moreland, MD: CAPITAL Research Group, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Pouya Motazedian, MD: CAPITAL Research Group, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Pietro Di Santo, MD: CAPITAL Research Group, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Aisling A. Clancy, MD, MSc: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
Zachary MacDonald, MD: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Trevor Simard, MD: CAPITAL Research Group, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Vascular Biology and Experimental Medicine Laboratory, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Benjamin Hibbert, MD, PhD: CAPITAL Research Group, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Vascular Biology and Experimental Medicine Laboratory, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Address for correspondence: Dr. Benjamin Hibbert, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, 40 Ruskin Street, H-4238, Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 4W7, Canada.
F. Daniel Ramirez, MD: CAPITAL Research Group, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 4, no. 4
pp. 471 – 477

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Summary: In this analysis of 3,396 preclinical cardiovascular studies, women were first, senior, and both first and senior authors in 41.3%, 20.7%, and 11.0% of the studies, respectively. Female authorship increased over a 10-year period. However, the proportion of studies with first and senior authors of differing sex was low and stable, suggesting that segregation by sex in mentorship relationships exists and persists. Female authors were more likely to consider sex as a biological variable, but author sex was not associated with other measures of experimental rigor or research impact, indicating that women’s underrepresentation was not due to differences in research capacity or impact. Key Words: cardiology, mentorship, translational research, women

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ISSN: 2452-302X (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
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