COVID-19 and Gender Differences in Family Medicine Scholarship.

Wright, Katherine M; Wheat, Santina; Clements, Deborah S; Edberg, Deborah · Ann Fam Med · 2022

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Abstract

This bibliometric analysis seeks to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted submission rates to <i>Annals of Family Medicine</i> by gender. Women represented 46.3% of all manuscript submissions included in our study (n = 1,964/4,238), spanning from January 1, 2015 to July 15, 2020. The overall volume of submissions increased during COVID-19 in comparison to pre-pandemic months; however, this increase was not evenly distributed among men and women (122% increase vs 101% increase, respectively). In the early months of the pandemic, 244 submissions were authored by men (58.5%), and 173 submissions were authored by women (41.5%). The gap in women's submission rates is troubling, as it suggests they may be at greater risk of falling behind male colleagues during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

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