Gender disparity between first and senior authors on liver cancer research in the top journals of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

• Huiqin Shi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Huiqin Shi, Huan Xu, Shu Huang

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Region Jiangyang, Luzhou, 646099, Sichuan Province, China

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• Huan Xu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Huiqin Shi, Huan Xu, Shu Huang

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Region Jiangyang, Luzhou, 646099, Sichuan Province, China

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• Shu Huang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Huiqin Shi, Huan Xu, Shu Huang

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The People’s Hospital of Lianshui, Lianshui, 223499, Huaian, Jiangsu Province, China

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• Zhenju Tan,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Region Jiangyang, Luzhou, 646099, Sichuan Province, China

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• Xinyue Ma,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Region Jiangyang, Luzhou, 646099, Sichuan Province, China

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• Han Zhang,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Region Jiangyang, Luzhou, 646099, Sichuan Province, China

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• Wei Zhang,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Region Jiangyang, Luzhou, 646099, Sichuan Province, China

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• Lei Shi,

  Roles Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Region Jiangyang, Luzhou, 646099, Sichuan Province, China

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• Xiaolin Zhong,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Region Jiangyang, Luzhou, 646099, Sichuan Province, China

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• Muhan Lü,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Region Jiangyang, Luzhou, 646099, Sichuan Province, China

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• Xia Chen ,

  Roles Supervision

  * E-mail: solitude5834@hotmail.com (XT); 970217858@qq.com (XC)

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Clinical Medical College and The First Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu Medical College, Xindu District, Chengdu City, 610500, Sichuan Province, China

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• Xiaowei Tang

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  * E-mail: solitude5834@hotmail.com (XT); 970217858@qq.com (XC)

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Region Jiangyang, Luzhou, 646099, Sichuan Province, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6064-0526

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