Research Article

Bibliometric Analysis of the English Musculoskeletal Literature over the Last 30 Years

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Gender combinations of first and corresponding authors, excluding single-authored manuscripts and those where the first author was also the corresponding author (FF = both authors female, FM = 1st author female and corresponding author male, MF = 1stauthor male and corresponding author male, MM = both authors male). (a) By journal type ( < 10−15). (b) By decade ( = 1.4 × 10−14). (c) By decade for basic science journals ( = 1 × 10−6). (d) By decade for clinical journals ( = 2.5 × 10−10). (e) By geographic region ( = 1.1 × 10−7).
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