Dr. Meier Presents at the 2022 ASHA Convention

In collaboration with Dr. Shannon Sheppard, Dr. Meier presented on their recent findings regarding gender imbalance in citation practices within the field of communication sciences and disorders CSD. Study results indicate that the number of woman first author and woman last author (WW) publications has increased from 1998 to 2022 while the number of man first author and man last author (MM) publications has decreased. There is a significant overcitation of WW-authored papers and trending undercitation of MM-author papers. Interestingly, WW teams overcited other WW papers while MM teams tended to overcite other MM papers. These findings reflect a pattern of citation homophily (i.e., love of “sameness”) also reported in other fields.

Dr. Sheppard presented on the results of a survey completed by 462 adults regarding their knowledge of stroke signs and symptoms. Knowledge of stroke signs was predicted by greater age and higher education. Long-term consequences of stroke was also predicted by age and education in addition to self-reported familiarity with stroke. Important for the field of CSD, participants were significantly less likely to correctly identify speech/language symptoms of stroke vs. non-speech motor impairments.