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. 2022 Mar 28;16(2):404–411. doi: 10.14444/8223

Table.

The prevalence of women on the editorial boards of spine, neurosurgery, and orthopedic surgery journals.

Journal Category and Title % ofFemale Editorial Board Members(n/N) 2018 JIF 5-Y JIF
Spine 5.53 (30/542)a - -
The Spine Journal 6.45 (8/124) 3.196 3.720
Spine 3.57 (5/140) 2.903 3.616
Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine 5.88 (1/17) 2.998 3.390
European Spine Journal 8.92 (14/157) 2.513 2.870
Clinical Spine Surgery 1.92 (2/104) 1.726 1.730
Neurosurgery 8.58 (47/548)a , b - -
Journal of Neurosurgery 15.00 (3/20) 4.130 4.483
Neurosurgery 15.03 (23/153) 4.605 4.415
Neurosurgical Focus 0.00 (0/4) 2.891 3.665
Neurosurgical Review 11.76 (2/17) 2.532 2.382
Neurosurgery Clinics of North America 0.00 (0/2) 2.553 2.323
World Neurosurgery 10.94 (14/128) 1.723 2.135
Acta Neurochirurgica 1.72 (1/58) 1.834 2.097
Journal of Neurosurgical Sciences 5.45 (3/55) 1.883 1.796
Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica 0.00 (0/58) 1.651 1.442
British Journal of Neurosurgery 0.00 (0/13) 1.481 1.313
Neurochirurgie 6.67 (1/15) 0.948 0.974
Journal of Neurological Surgery Part A 0.00 (0/9) 1.060 0.950
Turkish Neurosurgery 0.00 (0/16) 0.896 0.901
Orthopedics 10.77 (108/1003)b - -
The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 15.46 (15/97) 4.716 6.101
CORR 13.04 (12/92) 4.154 4.478
Acta Orthopaedica 10.00 (1/10) 3.217 3.575
JAAOS 8.00 (2/25) 2.348 3.322
Journal of Orthopaedic Research 21.99 (31/141) 3.043 3.156
International Orthopaedics 13.64 (3/22) 2.384 2.523
Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma 4.35 (6/138) 1.826 2.376
The Orthopedic Clinics of North America 0.00 (0/6) 2.475 2.364
JOSR 10.00 (4/40) 1.907 2.292
AOTS 0.00 (0/6) 1.973 2.085
OTSR 7.14 (1/14) 1.572 1.968
Orthopedics 4.76 (5/105) 1.608 1.720
Journal of Orthopaedic Science 2.00 (1/50) 1.257 1.468
Orthopaedic Surgery 0.89 (5/56) 1.331 1.395
Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery 12.57 (22/175) 0.957 1.099
AOTT 0.00 (0/26) 0.896 0.916
Total 8.84 (185/2093) - -

For each journal category, journals are arranged from highest to lowest 5-y JIF.

aJournal categories of spine and neurosurgery do not differ significantly from each other at the 0.05 level.

bJournal categories of neurosurgery and orthopedic surgery do not differ significantly from each other at the 0.05 level.

AOTS, Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery; AOTT, Acta Orthopaedica et Traumatologica Turcica; CORR, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research; JAAOS, Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons; JIF, journal impact factor; JOSR, Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research; OTSR, Orthopaedics & Traumatology: Surgery & Research.