Women Are Underrepresented Among Authors of Retracted Publications: Retrospective Study of 134 Medical Journals (Preprint)

Abstract

We examined the gender distribution of authors of retracted articles in 134 medical journals across 10 disciplines, compared it with the gender distribution of authors of all published articles, and found that women were underrepresented among authors of retracted articles, and, in particular, of articles retracted for misconduct.