COVID-19 and Gender Differences in Family Medicine Scholarship
Publication type
journal article
Publication date
2022
Author(s)
Wright, K.M.
Wheat, S.
Clements, D.S.
Edberg, D.
Language
English
View point(s)
Institutional
Discipline(s)
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. © 2022, Annals of Family Medicine, Inc. All rights reserved.
Journal
Annals of Family Medicine
ISSN
1544-1709
Volume
20
Issue
1
Pagination
32-34