COVID-19 and Gender Differences in Family Medicine Scholarship
Katherine M Wright1, Santina Wheat2, Deborah S Clements2
1Department of Family & Community Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois k-wright@northwestern.edu.
Abstract:
This bibliometric analysis seeks to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted submission rates to Annals of Family Medicine 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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