Gender Inequities in Plains Anthropologist Publishing from 1954 to 2023

Plains Anthropologist journal publishing data from 1954 to 2023, spanning 69 years and 266 issues. Phyllis S. Johnson compiled this dataset, which shows men published as first author in 82 percent of articles, while women served as first author in only 17 percent. The discrepancy has remained fairly constant since the early 1990s.

Use Cases

• Analyze long-term gender bias trends in academic publishing based on the 69-year temporal study.
• Compare author gender ratios across decades based on the data spanning from 1954 to 2023.
• Investigate the persistence of publishing disparities since the early 1990s based on the described constant trend.

Strengths

• 69-year temporal coverage, the longest such study to date.
• Analysis of 266 journal issues.
• Provides specific percentages: 82% male and 17% female first authorship.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the single journal source.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Analysis of peer-reviewed articles in Plains Anthropologist journal.

Time Range

1954 to 2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-24 05:58:28; freshness should be verified.