COVID-19 effect on the gender gap in academic publishing
Publication type
journal article
Publication date
2022
Author(s)
Jemielniak, D.
Sławska, A.
Wilamowski, M.
Language
English
View point(s)
Institutional
Discipline(s)
Abstract
The authors wanted to verify a popular belief that women scholars have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We studied the first names of authors of 266,409 articles from 2813 journals in 21 disciplines, and we found no significant differences between men and women in publication patterns between 2021, 2020, and 2019 overall. However, we found significant differences in publication patterns between gender in different disciplines. In addition, in disciplines where the proportion of women authors is higher, there are fewer single-authored articles. In the multi-author articles if the first author is female, there is more gender balance among authors, although there are still fewer women co-authors. © The Author(s) 2022.
Journal
Journal of Information Science
ISSN
1741-6485
Volume
49
Issue
6
Pagination
1587-1592