Female authorship in Latin American pediatric journals.

INTRODUCTION: The participation of women in science increases every day. Here we estimated their participation in authorship in three Latin American pediatric journals indexed in PubMed. METODOS: Se identificaron todos los articulos de Archivos Argentinos de Pediatria, Jornal de Pediatria y Revista Chilena de Pediatria correspondientes al ano 2015 y se determino el primer y ultimo autor, y el numero total de autores por sexo. RESULTS: A total of 329 articles were identified. Out of 1432 authors, 59.9% were women. Also, 54.4% of all first authors and 48% of last authors were women. No significant difference was observed in female authorship ratio among the three journals. Archivos Argentinos de Pediatria had a significantly lower number of women as first and last authors. CONCLUSION: La proporcion de mujeres autoras en tres revistas pediatricas latinoamericanas alcanzo el 59,9%. La participacion como primer o ultimo autor fue significativamente menor en Archivos Argentinos de Pediatria.