Representation in BioScience Authorship.

Nevertheless, it seems likely that older authors in our sample were more likely to have published more than one article in I BioScience i over this period, were more likely to be a last author of an article, and were more likely to publish article types that were not Overviews or Forums. The journal I BioScience i , which first appeared in 1951 as the I AIBS Bulletin i , is published by the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS). In our sample, the male authors of I BioScience i barely outnumbered the female authors (1.2:1). It should be noted that the authorship characteristics data for all three plots were somewhat skewed (most of the authors were not last authors). [Extracted from the article]

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