title: Longitudinal Analysis of Female Authorship of Psychiatry Articles in Turkey.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The number of women with careers in medicine and with academic positions at medical schools has increased substantially since the 1980s; however, women remain underrepresented in medical academia, which may be because of the fewer research publications authored by women. This study aimed to determine the gender distribution among Turkish authors of psychiatry articles published in international scientific journals during a 30-year period.
  
  
  METHODS
  The ISI Web of Science database was searched for all psychiatry publications between 1980 and 2009 using the search term Turkey. All articles were classified according to publication period (1980-1989, 1990-1999, 2000-2004, and 2005-2009), gender of the first and last authors, first author title, total number of authors, and type of article.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In all, 1961 articles meet the study criteria. The first author of 36.5% of the articles and 34.9% of last authors were women. The percentage of female first and last authors did not differ according to publication period (p=0.57).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  To the best of our knowledge this is the first study to examine gender and authorship of psychiatric research in Turkey. In total, 33% of academic positions in Turkish university psychiatry departments were occupied by women, which is comparable to the percentage of female first authors of psychiatric research papers from Turkey. It could be concluded that women academics in psychiatry departments from state universities are as reproductive as their male counterparts, but there is still a "gender gap" in psychiatry field in our country.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Özlem
authors.initials: Ö
authors.lastname: Erden Aki
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Psychiatry, Zekai Tahir Burak Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Elçin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Özçelik Eroğlu
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Psychiatry, Kolan British Hospital, Nicosia, Cyprus.
authors.forename: Ece
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Uslu
keywords: Women; gender gap; psychiatry; publication