Journals invite too few women to referee

Too Many Journals

2016 was a year in which the political arena captured social media—transforming America’s 250-year-old electoral process. This was but one more event in the evolution of our digital age, affecting all walks of society. In medicine, the digital era has brought us big data and unprecedented access to knowledge. For example, the cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics houses publicly available genomic data...

Are there too few women presenting at emergency medicine conferences?

INTRODUCTION There is a perception that women are under-represented as speakers at emergency medicine (EM) conferences. We aimed to evaluate the ratio of male to female speakers and the proportion of presenting time by gender at major international EM conferences. METHODS Conference programmes of the major English-speaking EM conferences occurring from 2014 to 2015 were obtained. The number o...

Too many patients, too few cardiologists to care?

1Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto; 2Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute; 3Canadian Cardiovascular Society, Ottawa, Ontario; 4Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology; 5Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia Correspondence: Dr H Ross, Toront...

Too Many Journals? Nonsense!

Every few weeks I read another journalist’s jab at the value and qttarttity of scientific journals. When discussing the ever-expanding literature, reporters of the popular press frequently indulge in supertlcial analyses that distort reality, whether through misunderstanding or exaggeration. Nancy Jeffrey revealed profound misunderstanding in “Mollusks, Semiotics and Dermatology: Narrow Scholar...

Too few physicians, or too many?