泌尿器科の学術分野における多様性の促進：65年間にACTA UROLOGICAJAPONICAで出版された10,000件の記事の分析

Gender equality is one of the most important issues in the promotion of diversity. T h e participation status of female urologists in academic activities has not been clarified. In the present study, we analyzed a total of 10,288 articles published by 58,914 authors in Acta Urologica Japonica since the first issue in 1955 to the present. T h e author's gender was determined by an application program interface for gender estimation in combination with independent manual confirmation by two researchers. T h e increasing rate (Δperson/Δ year) of female authors was as low as 0.067 in 1955-79, but increased to 0.400 in 1980-2000 and 0.814 in 2001-20. Over the time periods, the annual total numbers of female authors (person/year) showed an increasing trend from 3.2 in 1955-79 to 16.3 in 1980-2000 and 26.0 in 2001-20. T h e numbers of female author individuals, the ratio of female authors to all authors and the ratio of publications by female first author to all publications also showed similar trends. These results suggest that gender equality is becoming more prevalent in the academic field of urology. T h e methods and data of this study are considered to be useful for the promotion of gender equality in the academic field of urology for the future.