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Impact of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic on Authorship Gender in The Journal of Pediatrics: Disproportionate Productivity by International Male Researchers.
Williams, Wadsworth A; Li, Alice; Goodman, Denise M; Ross, Lainie Friedman.
  • Williams WA; Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
  • Li A; Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
  • Goodman DM; Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Division of Critical Care Medicine, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
  • Ross LF; MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Electronic address: Lross@uchicago.edu.
J Pediatr ; 231: 50-54, 2021 04.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1044718
ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE:

To assess the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on authorship gender in articles submitted to The Journal of Pediatrics. STUDY

DESIGN:

Using gender-labeling algorithms and human inspection, we inferred the gender of corresponding authors of original articles submitted in January-February and April-May of 2019 and 2020 noting those articles related to the COVID-19 pandemic. We used Pearson χ2 tests to determine differences in gender proportions during the selected periods in the US and internationally.

RESULTS:

We analyzed 1521 original articles. Submissions increased 10.9% from January-February 2019 to January-February 2020 and 61.6% from April-May 2019 to April-May 2020. Women accounted for 56.0% of original articles in April-May 2019 but only 49.8% of original articles in April-May 2020. Original articles focused on COVID-19 represented a small percentage of additional articles submitted in January-February 2020 (1/33 or 3.0%) and (53/199 or 26.6%) in April-May 2020 compared with the number of submissions in the same months in 2019. International male corresponding authors submitted a significantly larger proportion of original articles compared with international female corresponding authors in April-May 2020 compared to April-May 2019 (P = .043). There was no difference in corresponding author gender proportion in the US (US in April-May of 2020 vs April-May of 2019; P = .95). There was no significant difference in final dispositions based on corresponding author gender for original articles from 2019 and 2020 (P = .17).

CONCLUSIONS:

Original article submissions to The Journal increased in April-May 2020, with the greatest increase by international male corresponding authors. The majority of the submission growth was not related to COVID-19.
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Texto completo: Disponible Colección: Bases de datos internacionales Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Pediatría / Autoria / Bibliometría / Eficiencia / COVID-19 Tipo de estudio: Estudio experimental / Estudio observacional Límite: Femenino / Humanos / Masculino Idioma: Inglés Revista: J Pediatr Año: 2021 Tipo del documento: Artículo País de afiliación: J.jpeds.2020.12.032

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Texto completo: Disponible Colección: Bases de datos internacionales Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Pediatría / Autoria / Bibliometría / Eficiencia / COVID-19 Tipo de estudio: Estudio experimental / Estudio observacional Límite: Femenino / Humanos / Masculino Idioma: Inglés Revista: J Pediatr Año: 2021 Tipo del documento: Artículo País de afiliación: J.jpeds.2020.12.032