[Authorship and data reporting according to gender in four Spanish biomedical journals].
OBJECTIVE
To describe authorship according to gender in the articles published in four Spanish scientific journals of general medicine and public health, and to analyse the type of presentation of the results in relation to the sex of the subjects of the study.


METHODS
We examined 423 articles from four Spanish scientific journals published during 1998.


RESULTS
70.7% of the articles revised had a man as the first author. The sex difference was significant in the editorials (12.4% of the women vs. 29.8% of the men, p < 0.05). Stratification of the results by sex was presented in 167 articles and in 85.6% of them the information about men.


CONCLUSIONS
Gender inequalities in the publication of scientific works in the field of general medicine and public health are found.
Schiaffino
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Institut Català d'Oncologia, Servicio de Prevención y Control del Cáncer, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain. aschiaffino@ico.scs.es
García
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Fernández
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E
D001319:Authorship; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012737:Sex Factors; D013030:Spain