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. 2021 May 19;31(12):8887–8896. doi: 10.1007/s00330-021-07928-4

Table 2.

Proportions of female authors separated by impact range and year

High IF Medium IF Low IF Adjusted odds ratio (AOR [95% CI])
Total observ. Fem. observ. AER [95% CI] Total observ. Fem. observ. AER [95% CI] Total observ. Fem. observ. AER [95% CI] Medium–high AOR [95% CI] Des.
p-value
Low–high
AOR [95% CI]
p-value Low–medium
AOR [95% CI]
Des.
p-value
Overall 10988 2290 18.0 [17.1–19.0] 5941 1545 23.2 [21.9–24.5] 2821 678 21.2 [19.4–23.0] 1.4 [1.2–1.5] < .0001 1.2 [1.1–1.4] .0013 0.9 [0.8–1.0] .142
2007/2008 4608 791 14.6 [13.4–15.8] 2796 622 19.5 [17.9–21.3] 940 162 14.6 [12.4–17.2] 1.4 [1.2–1.7] < .0001 1.0 [0.7–1.4] 1.00 0.7 [0.5–1.0] .0199
2017/2018 6380 1499 20.8 [19.5–22.0] 3145 923 26.8 [25.0–28.7] 1881 516 24.8 [22.6–27.2] 2.1 [1.6–2.9] < .0001 1.3 [1.0–1.5] .0106 0.9 [0.7–1.1] .7453
2007–2018
Female FA 5462 1510 24.2 [22.8–25.6] 2957 902 27.3 [25.4–29.2] 1394 407 25.8 [23.3–28.5] 1.2 [1.0–1.4] .0603 1.1 [0.9–1.4] .8655 0.9 [0.7–1.2] .9460
Female SA 5526 780 11.0 [10.1–12.0] 2984 643 18.0 [16.4–19.6] 1427 271 15.5 [13.6–17.7] 1.8 [1.5–2.1] < .0001 1.5 [1.2–1.9] < .0001 0.8 [0.7–1.1] .3865

Logistic mixed model including adjusted odds ratio (AOR) and adjusted event rate (AER) with 95% confidence interval (CI). Abbreviations: IF impact factor, Total observ. total observations, Fem. observ. female observations, Des. p-value descriptive p-value, FA first author, SA senior author