Sugimoto et al., "Factors affecting sex-related reporting in medical research: a cross-disciplinary bibliometric analysis" (2019)

Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Elise Smith, Benoit Macaluso, and Vincent Larivière, The Lancet 393(10171), 550–559 (2019)
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@article{sugimoto2019sexreporting,
    author = {Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Yong-Yeol Ahn and Elise Smith and Benoit Macaluso and Vincent Larivière},
    title = {Factors affecting sex-related reporting in medical research: a cross-disciplinary bibliometric analysis},
    journal = {The Lancet},
    volume = {393},
    number = {10171},
    pages = {550--559},
    doi = {10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32995-7},
    year = {2019},
}

Analyzes sex-related reporting across more than 11.5 million medical papers from 1980–2016. Reporting increased in clinical medicine and public health but remained low in biomedical research; papers with women as both first and last authors were more likely to report sex.

Research ethics, Sex bias in research, Bibliometrics