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Background: Revista Médica de Chile (RevMedChile) is the oldest monthly journal of Chilean health science, responsible for publishing original articles related to internal medicine and its derived subspecialties.
Diversity among researchers helps to develop a broader spectrum of viewpoints which, in turn, promotes a path to gender, nationality, and academic equity. This approach leads to ramping up trustworthiness.
Objectives: Assess authorship diversity and its distribution by theme and methodology in investigation articles, published in Rev Med Chile between the years 2017-2021.
Methods: We retrieved every article published in Rev Med Chile during 2017-2021 and made a full text review. We only consider quantitative research articles from clinical and preclinical areas. A list of the first authors characterized by the variables sex, occupation and geographical location was created. Finally, we analyze the distribution of those variables in different themes and methodologies presented in the totality of the articles reviewed.
Results: We found 1,056 articles, of which 728 were included due to our inclusion criteria. In 439 (60.3%) of the articles, the first authors were men, and in 289 (39.6%), they were women. 551 (75.1%) of the first authors were geographically located in South America, 172 (23.6%) in Europe, 4 (0.5%) in North America, and 1 (0.1%) in Asia. The affiliations of universities were as follows: 246 (33.7%) for Chilean state institutions, 288 (39.5%) for Chilean private institutions, 37 (5%) for foreign institutions, and 157 (21.5%) for undetermined institutions. Among the total Chilean institutions, 383 (71.5%) were located in the capital of Chile. Finally, the total number of publications had 473 (64.9%) medical doctors as first authors and 255 (35.1%) authors from other professions..
Conclusions: In the last four years, the most neglected categories in Revista Médica de Chile were women, state Chilean state universities, other regions different from the capital and other professions different from medical doctors
Patient, public, and/or healthcare consumer involvement: Patients, the public, and/or healthcare consumers were not involved in this study.
Diversity among researchers helps to develop a broader spectrum of viewpoints which, in turn, promotes a path to gender, nationality, and academic equity. This approach leads to ramping up trustworthiness.
Objectives: Assess authorship diversity and its distribution by theme and methodology in investigation articles, published in Rev Med Chile between the years 2017-2021.
Methods: We retrieved every article published in Rev Med Chile during 2017-2021 and made a full text review. We only consider quantitative research articles from clinical and preclinical areas. A list of the first authors characterized by the variables sex, occupation and geographical location was created. Finally, we analyze the distribution of those variables in different themes and methodologies presented in the totality of the articles reviewed.
Results: We found 1,056 articles, of which 728 were included due to our inclusion criteria. In 439 (60.3%) of the articles, the first authors were men, and in 289 (39.6%), they were women. 551 (75.1%) of the first authors were geographically located in South America, 172 (23.6%) in Europe, 4 (0.5%) in North America, and 1 (0.1%) in Asia. The affiliations of universities were as follows: 246 (33.7%) for Chilean state institutions, 288 (39.5%) for Chilean private institutions, 37 (5%) for foreign institutions, and 157 (21.5%) for undetermined institutions. Among the total Chilean institutions, 383 (71.5%) were located in the capital of Chile. Finally, the total number of publications had 473 (64.9%) medical doctors as first authors and 255 (35.1%) authors from other professions..
Conclusions: In the last four years, the most neglected categories in Revista Médica de Chile were women, state Chilean state universities, other regions different from the capital and other professions different from medical doctors
Patient, public, and/or healthcare consumer involvement: Patients, the public, and/or healthcare consumers were not involved in this study.