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Ophira Ginsburg: Our new paper on sex and authorship in global cancer research, led by the amazing amazing Dr Miriam Mutebi

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Apr 22, 2024, 19:44

Ophira Ginsburg: Our new paper on sex and authorship in global cancer research, led by the amazing amazing Dr Miriam Mutebi

Ophira Ginsburg shared on LinkedIn:

“Just out! Our new paper on sex and authorship in global cancer research, led by the amazing amazing Dr Miriam Mutebi.

Deborah Mukherji, Nazik Hammad, Winnie So, Erica Liebermann, Verna Vanderpuye, Julie S. Torode, Grant Lewison, Richard Sullivan.

And see the accompanying editorial.

Key findings:

Our analysis of 56 countries’ outputs, in 2009, revealed that females were the first authors in 37.2% and last authors in 23.3% of papers. In 2019, females were the first author in 41.6% and last author in 29.4% of papers.

From 2009 to 2019, the highest proportion of females as first and last authors were from low-income and middle-income countries in Latin America and Eastern Europe.
Females were more likely to publish in lower impact journals and were less likely to be cited compared to males.Stay tuned for more from The Lancet Commission on Women, Power, and Cancer!”

Ophira Ginsburg

Source: Ophira Ginsburg/LinkedIn

Ophira Ginsburg is a Canadian medical oncologist, humanitarian, and global cancer advocate. Currently, she is the Senior Scientific Officer and Senior Advisor for Clinical Research at the US NCI’s Center for Global Health. Formerly based at the University of Toronto, Canada, she was a Medical Officer at the World Health Organization (WHO) Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, and has served as an ad hoc consultant to several UN agencies. She is the co-chair of The Lancet Commission on Women and Cancer. In 2022, Dr. Ginsburg won the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s Humanitarian Award.

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