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Table 3.

Synopsis of different subject areas

Subject area	FAP (%)	FAOR first	FAOR co	FAOR last	Prestige Index	Female representation at prestigious authorships in		Gender-specific differences in citation rates
Subject area	FAP (%)	FAOR first	FAOR co	FAOR last	Prestige Index	Multiauthor articles	Highest impact journals	Gender-specific differences in citation rates
Q1 Dermatology	43.0	1.41	1.07	0.60	−0.11	Stable	Stable	Minor
Epilepsy¹⁴	39.6	1.25	1.17	0.57	−0.22	Decline	-	Major
Schizophrenia¹²	37.6	1.30	1.20	0.57	−0.22	Sharp decline	-	Major
Lung Cancer²²	31.3	1.22	1.19	0.59	−0.22	Sharp decline	-	Minor
Nature Index Journals³⁵	29.8	1.19	1.35	0.47	−0.42	Sharp decline	Decline	Major

In high-quality dermatological research, the integration of female scholars is advanced as compared with other (medical) disciplines. However, in all subject areas, a considerable career dichotomy is still present, with many female researchers at the beginning of their career and few women in academic leadership positions. Please note that the Nature Index offers a database for the specific analysis of high impact scientific efforts from the journal categories of Multidisciplinary, Earth & Environmental, Life Science and Physics ⁴⁶ (Physics was excluded from analysis).