Silent voices: Uncovering women’s absence in veterinary surgery publications

Kelly L. Bowlt Blacklock; Jill R. D. Mackay; Poppy Bristow; Ishita Parakh; Alina Paczesna; Fiona Mackay; Kathryn Pratschke

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0330392

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Silent voices: Uncovering women’s absence in veterinary surgery publications

Kelly L. Bowlt Blacklock ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: kelly.blacklock@ed.ac.uk

Affiliation The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6482-7224

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Jill R. D. Mackay,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Poppy Bristow,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dick White Referrals, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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Ishita Parakh,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Alina Paczesna,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Fiona Mackay,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Kathryn Pratschke

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1468-9967

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Silent voices: Uncovering women’s absence in veterinary surgery publications

Kelly L. Bowlt Blacklock,
Jill R. D. Mackay,
Poppy Bristow,
Ishita Parakh,
Alina Paczesna,
Fiona Mackay,
Kathryn Pratschke

Published: August 14, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0330392

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