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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Psychiatry. 2019 Feb 19;86(8):639–646. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2019.02.010

Table 1:

Author Gender Representation by Journal (2008–2018) Sorted by Percentage of Women Last Authors

Journal Articles (n) Percent Women Authors (%) Percent Women First Authors (%) Percent Women Last Authors (%) Percent of Authors with a Gender Identified (%)
Lancet Psychiatry 645 45.9 47.3 44.7 94.2
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 1183 53.9 62.7 44.3 92.2
Psychoneuroendocrinology 2347 49.1 62.2 42.7 86.5
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 1062 49.6 53.8 40.6 94.8
Addiction 2204 44.2 46.4 37.1 93.1
CNS Drugs 224 41.3 40.6 36.4 90.8
Depress Anxiety 1008 48 54.5 35.4 91.8
Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 1227 41.1 46 33.9 80.9
J Behav Addict 291 44.3 42.2 33.6 88.5
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 1243 44.7 44.5 33.4 92.5
Am J Psychiatry 1246 40.4 40.6 32.4 93.4
Br J Psychiatry 1278 41 41.7 31.4 85.3
JAMA Psychiatry 1573 40.4 41.6 31.1 93.4
J Psychiatr Res 2015 42.6 47.5 30.6 85.5
Prog. Neuropsychopharmacol. Biol. Psychiatry 1805 41.2 46.2 30.6 76.9
J Psychiatry Neurosci 453 41.5 47.8 30.3 88.2
Schizophr Bull 1321 38.7 37.5 30.2 89.8
Biol. Psychiatry 2313 39.7 47.3 30 91.7
Neuropsychopharmacology 2529 41.3 48.8 29.8 90.4
J Clin Psychiatry 2007 40.1 37.6 29.8 92
Bipolar Disord 759 43.4 50.5 29.7 91.2
Int. J. Neuropsychopharmacol. 1287 40.4 47.5 29.5 86.4
Psychother Psychosom 278 41.2 40.8 28.6 87.9
World Psychiatry 636 32.4 21.1 27.3 91.6
Total 30934 42.7 46.1 33.4 89.1