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. 2021 Jan:91:1-3.
doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2020.11.022. Epub 2020 Nov 17.

Gender inequality in publishing during the COVID-19 pandemic

Alana K Ribarovska  1 , Mark R Hutchinson  2 , Quentin J Pittman  3 , Carmine Pariante  4 , Sarah J Spencer  5
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Gender inequality in publishing during the COVID-19 pandemic

Alana K Ribarovska et al. Brain Behav Immun. 2021 Jan.
No abstract available

Keywords: Authorship; COVID-19; Gender.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Percentage of female authors publishing in BBI for late 2019, and 2020 and early 2021. A). First authors. For 2020, light blue indicates all articles in the volume, dark blue indicates articles in the 2020 COVID-19 Special Issue. Chi-squared analysis revealed a significant reduction in the number of female authors, relative to males, for July, August, and October using the data from the COVID-19 Special Issue and for November using all data. P < 0.01 in each case. B) Last or single authors. There was a significant reduction in the number of female authors, relative to males, for the July, August, and October volumes using the data from the COVID-19 Special Issue and for the November and 2020/21 January volumes using all data. P < 0.05 in each case. Gender-unidentified authors (<5% of total in all months) were not included. Each month contained between 40 and 136 articles. Data follow the same trends with omission of brief communications and correspondence. Note: there was no September or December issue in either year. Data for January 2021 are complete as of November 08, 2020. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)
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