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Meta-Research: Is Covid-19 Amplifying the Authorship Gender Gap in the Medical Literature?
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected work and family life for many, includ...
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COVID-19 amplifies gender disparities in research
Early evidence suggests that women, including female researchers, are di...
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Publication Patterns' Changes due to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A longitudinal and short-term scientometric analysis
In recent months the COVID-19 (also known as SARS-CoV-2 and Coronavirus)...
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A Self-supervised Approach for Semantic Indexing in the Context of COVID-19 Pandemic
The pandemic has accelerated the pace at which COVID-19 scientific paper...
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Gender Inequality in Research Productivity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
We study the disproportionate impact of the lockdown as a result of the ...
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Discovering associations in COVID-19 related research papers
A COVID-19 pandemic has already proven itself to be a global challenge. ...
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MeSH descriptors indicate the knowledge growth in the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic
The scientific papers dealing with the novel betacoronavirus SARS-CoV-2 ...
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Meta-Research: COVID-19 medical papers have fewer women first authors than expected
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in school closures and distancing requirements that have disrupted both work and family life for many. Concerns exist that these disruptions caused by the pandemic may not have influenced men and women researchers equally. Many medical journals have published papers on the pandemic, which were generated by researchers facing the challenges of these disruptions. Here we report the results of an analysis that compared the gender distribution of authors on 1,893 medical papers related to the pandemic with that on papers published in the same journals in 2019, for papers with first authors and last authors from the United States. Using mixed-effects regression models, we estimated that the proportion of COVID-19 papers with a woman first author was 19 journals in 2019, while our comparisons for last authors and overall proportion of women authors per paper were inconclusive. A closer examination suggested that women's representation as first authors of COVID-19 research was particularly low for papers published in March and April 2020. Our findings are consistent with the idea that the research productivity of women, especially early-career women, has been affected more than the research productivity of men.
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