COVID-19 medical papers have fewer women first authors than expected.
COVID-19 medical papers have fewer women first authors than expected.
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DOI：
10.7554/elife.58807
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发表时间：
2020-06-15
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影响因子：
7.7
通讯作者：
Jagsi, Reshma
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作者：
Andersen, Jens Peter;Nielsen, Mathias Wullum;Jagsi, Reshma
新冠肺炎疫情已导致学校停课和疏远要求，扰乱了许多人的工作和家庭生活。人们担心，大流行造成的这些干扰可能不会对男性和女性研究人员产生同等影响。许多医学期刊都发表了关于这种大流行的论文，这些论文是由面临这些干扰挑战的研究人员撰写的。在这里，我们报告了一项分析的结果，该分析比较了1893篇与疫情有关的医学论文的作者性别分布，以及2019年发表在同一期刊上的论文的性别分布，这些论文的第一作者和最后作者来自美国。使用混合效应回归模型，我们估计2019年新冠肺炎论文中女性第一作者的比例比同一期刊上发表的论文低19%，而我们对最后作者和女性作者比例的比较并不确定。更仔细的研究表明，在2020年3月和4月发表的论文中，女性作为新冠肺炎研究的第一作者的比例尤其低。我们的发现与这样一种观点是一致的，即女性的研究生产率受到的影响比男性的研究生产率更大，尤其是职业早期的女性。
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 1893 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% lower than that for papers published in the same 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.