From first to last author: evaluation of women’s career progression in mental health publishing in one institution
Daniel Stahl, Imogen Kilcoyne, Phil Staite, Til Wykes · 2025
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Women in academic mental health publish plenty of papers, yet senior authorship, the last name on the byline, still skews male. Daniel Stahl, Imogen Kilcoyne, Phil Staite, and Til Wykes measured that skew at their own institution in a 2025 study. They tracked author gender and position across three cohorts, 2016, 2018, and 2020.
Women made up a clear majority of first authors, about 62 against 40 on the study's marginal scale, while men predominated in the last slot in every field and year. The three schools inside the institute differed from each other. Women's share of senior slots did edge up modestly over the period, but one hopeful interaction seen in 2018 had vanished by 2020. The authors read the pattern as slow progress that support programs have not yet turned into parity.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Daniel Stahl, Imogen Kilcoyne, Phil Staite, Til Wykes |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |