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01.02.2019 | Original Article

Gender disparity in academic emergency radiology

verfasst von: Frank Battaglia, Samad Shah, Sabeena Jalal, Kiran Khurshid, Nupur Verma, Savvas Nicolaou, Sravanthi Reddy, Susan John, Faisal Khosa

Erschienen in: Emergency Radiology | Ausgabe 1/2019

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Abstract

Objective

This study is intended to better understand how academic productivity and career advancement differs between men and women emergency radiologists in academic practices.

Materials and methods

Parameters of academic achievement were measured, including number of citations, number of publications, and h-index, while also collecting information on academic and leadership ranking among emergency radiologists in North America.

Results

In emergency radiology, there are significantly fewer women than men (22.2% vs 77.8%). Of these women, the greatest proportion of women held the lower academic rank of assistant professor (95.4%). Female assistant professors had a higher h-index than men at the same rank (4 vs 2), but it was not statistically significantly higher. There was no significant difference between gender and academic (p = 0.089) or leadership (p = 0.586) rankings.

Conclusion

This study provides further evidence that gender disparity persists in emergency radiology, with women achieving less upward academic career mobility than men, despite better academic productivity in the earlier stages of their careers. The academic productivity of emergency radiologists at the rank of assistant professor is significantly higher for women than men.

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Titel: Gender disparity in academic emergency radiology
verfasst von: Frank Battaglia
Samad Shah
Sabeena Jalal
Kiran Khurshid
Nupur Verma
Savvas Nicolaou
Sravanthi Reddy
Susan John
Faisal Khosa
Publikationsdatum: 01.02.2019
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Erschienen in: Emergency Radiology / Ausgabe 1/2019
Print ISSN: 1070-3004
Elektronische ISSN: 1438-1435
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10140-018-1642-7

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