Abstract
Objective
To describe the authors who have contributed articles to the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (APM&R) over the 100 years of its existence.
Design
Extraction of relevant information from a sample of APM&R articles.
Setting
Not applicable.
Participants
A total of 4933 authors contributing to 1787 articles.
Main Outcome Measures
Number of authors and their gender, professional education, and country of residence.
Results
The average number of authors per article increased from 1.1 in 1922 to 5.8 in 2017.
The percentage of women authors grew from <5% to about 40%. In 1922 the majority of
authors had an MD degree (85%); this declined to <30% by 2017, while the percentage
of authors with a PhD grew from about 10% to about 30%. The percentage of contributors
with a bachelor’s degree initially was about 1%, grew to 13%, and then declined again.
While in APM&R’s early years, >90% of authors were from the United States, this percentage went
into a steep decline beginning in about 1997 and now is around 35%.
Conclusions
The APM&R has seen major transformations in the nature of its contributors over a century of
publication; many of these parallel the changes seen in other areas of health care
and medical science, but some characteristics and shifts (especially in gender and
level of training of its authors) appear unique.
Keywords
List of abbreviations:
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Published online: September 26, 2019
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