1. An investigation into gender distributions in scholarly publications among dental faculty members in Iran
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Ekmekci, Perihan Elif, Crawley, Francis P., Folayan, Morenike Oluwatoyin, Bierer, Barbara E., DeTora, Lisa M., Sofi-Mahmudi, Ahmad, Shamsoddin, Erfan, Ekmekci, Perihan Elif, Crawley, Francis P., Folayan, Morenike Oluwatoyin, Bierer, Barbara E., DeTora, Lisa M., Sofi-Mahmudi, Ahmad, and Shamsoddin, Erfan
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Sofi-Mahmudi, Ahmad/0000-0001-6829-0823; DeTora, Lisa/0000-0001-5348-2638, Background Research on gender inequality is crucial as it unveils the pervasive disparities that persist across various domains, shedding light on societal imbalances and providing a foundation for informed policy-making. Aim To investigate gender differences in scientometric indices among faculty members in dental schools across Iran. This included overall data and speciality-specific data. Methods The publication profiles of academic staff in all dental schools were examined using the Iranian Scientometric Information Database (ISID, http://isid.research.ac.ir). Variables analyzed were working field, academic degree, the total number of papers, papers per year, total number of citations, percentage of self-citation, h-index, g-index, citations per paper, gender, university type, number of years publishing, proportion of international papers, first-author papers, and corresponding-author papers. Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis nonparametric tests were used to analyze the relationship between background characteristics and scientometric indicators. The extracted data were analyzed using R v4.0.1. Results The database included 1850 faculty members, of which about 60% (1104 of 1850) were women. Men (n = 746) had a higher number of papers (6583 vs. 6255) and citations (60410 vs. 39559) compared with women; 234 of the 376 faculty members with no papers were women. Almost half of the women (N = 517 of 1104) were in Type 2 universities, and nearly half of the men (N = 361 of the 746) were faculty members at Type 1 universities (Type 1 universities ranking higher than Type 2 and 3 universities). The medians of scientometric indices were higher in men, except for self-citation percentage (0 (IQR = 2) vs. 0 (IQR = 3), P = 0.083), international papers percentage (0 (IQR = 7.5) vs. 0 (IQR = 16.7), P0.001). The proportion of corresponding-author papers was more than 62% higher in women (25 (IQR = 50) vs. 15.4 (IQR = 40), P0.001). Men had a two-fold higher median h-index (2 (IQR, We wish to thank Dr Vasantha Muthuswamy (President, Forum for Ethics Review Committees in India [FERCI], Mumbai, India) for her valuable comments on our paper.
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- 2024