While there are no prior studies examining gender authorship in PLoS journals, our findings are in line with previous reports that focused on different but relevant biomedical journals, pointing out an increasing trend in the prevalence of female first authorship, but with that, last authorship is yet to catch up.
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Female Dynamics in Authorship of Scientific Publications in the Public Library of Science: A 10-year Bibliometric Analysis of Biomedical Research.
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