The "gender gap" in authorship of academic medical literature--a 35-year perspective.

By Reshma Jagsi, E. Guancial, C. C. Worobey, Lori Henault, Yuchiao Chang, R. Starr, N. Tarbell, E. Hylek. New England Journal of Medicine, 2006

825 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Over-optimization of academic publishing metrics: observing Goodhart’s Law in action (2018, neutral): “Additionally, Gwilym Lockwood observed that “articles with positively-framed titles, interesting phrasing, and no word-play get more attention online” [45].”
Gender Gaps in Performance: Evidence from Young Lawyers (2017, neutral): “Lemieux et al. (2009) study the evolution of performance pay and wage inequality in the U.”
The Role of Gender in Scholarly Authorship (2012, background): “Studies of authorship in the medical literature reveal, for instance, that women have been historically underrepresented in the prestige positions of first and last author, and that while discrepancies have recently declined in the first author position, women remain underrepresented as last authors”