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01-03-2011 | Poster presentation
Female authors in top-rank journals of different medical specialties
Authors:
K Amrein, C Putz-Bankuti, J Mader, A Amegah-Sakotnik, T Urbanic, D Wagner, E Prandl, N Sareban, S Amrein, A Langmann
Published in:
Critical Care
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Special Issue 1/2011
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Excerpt
In various scientific fields, including medical research, men have been found to have a higher scientific output than women. These differences may be due to women's lower integration in the scientific community [
1]. Even though the proportion of female authors has increased in the past decades, women still contribute less to prominent medical journals [
2]. …