由女性研究人员撰写的生物医学和生命科学文章在审查中花费的时间更长
David Alvarez-Ponce1, Gabrial Batz1, Luis Ramirez Torres1
1Biology Department, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, United States of America.
PLoS biology
|January 20, 2026
概括
在生物医学和生命科学领域,女性研究人员面临更长的同行评审时间. 手稿审查中的性别差距可能导致女性在STEMM领域的代表性不足.
科学领域:
- 生物医学科学 生物医学科学
- 生命科学 生命科学
- 学术研究学术研究
背景情况:
- 妇女在学术界的代表性仍然不足,特别是在科学,技术,工程,数学和医学 (STEMM) 领域.
- 现有的关于学术同行评审中性别偏见的研究产生了相互矛盾的结果,一些研究表明女性作者的评审时间更长,而另一些研究发现没有显著差异.
研究的目的:
- 在生物医学和生命科学领域的同行评审过程中调查潜在的性别偏见.
- 为了确定手稿审查时间是否根据这些领域的作者性别有所不同.
主要方法:
- 分析了PubMed数据库中索引的超过3650万篇文章.
- 对女性撰写的文章与男性撰写的文章的同行评审时间 (提交到接受) 的比较.
- 对影响审查持续时间的各种因素进行统计控制.
主要成果:
- 由女性撰写的文章经历的中位审查时间比由男性撰写的文章长7.4%14.6%.
- 在大多数学科中,无论女性代表性如何,都观察到这种审查持续时间的性别差距.
- 来自低收入国家的作者也面临着延长的审查期.
结论:
- 生物医学和生命科学中的同行评审系统表现出性别偏见,由女性撰写的手稿经历了更长的审查.
- 这种差异可能有助于观察到的出版率和学术代表性的性别差距.
- 解决这种偏见对于促进科学研究中的性别平等至关重要.
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