1160 Female Authors Contributed to Less Than 20 Percent of the 100 Most Cited Articles in Gastroenterology and Hepatology - Will This Change?

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The number of citations that an article has received can reflect its importance in a specialty. The purpose of this study was to analyze the characteristics of top-cited articles published in Gastroenterology and Hepatology Journals in the citation database-Scopus. The number of citations an article receives after its publication reflects its impact in the scientific community. The aim of this study was to identify and characterize the 100 top-cited articles published in gastroenterology journals over the past five decades. METHODS: The top-cited original research articles published in gastroenterology journals were identified using the database of Scopus 1970-2019. The 100 top-cited articles were selected and analyzed with regard to the number of citations, year of publication, publishing journal, authorship, Sex of the authors, country of origin, type of article, gastroenterology sub-specialty. Meta-analysis and Review articles were excluded. RESULTS: The 100 top-cited articles were published in eight gastroenterology journals, led by Gastroenterology (n = 48) and followed by the Hepatology (n = 27). These articles were published between 1970 and 2019 with a mean of 1324.31 citations per article (range, 879–4301). Forty-Eight articles were published between 2001-2010 alone. Of the total 45% originated from the United States followed by France with 10%. The most common sub-specialties of study were Hepatology (n = 52) and Colon (n = 31). 87% of first authors were male and 90% of last authors were male. 60% of all articles were clinical research. CONCLUSION: Our study presents the characteristic of the 100 top-cited articles published in gastroenterology journals. Close to half of the original articles were contributed from the USA. Women in gastroenterology contributed to less than 20% to the most cited as top authors.