Evaluating Covid-19 publications for sex and gender-specific health content: A bibliometric analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sex and gender are key variables which inform human health and disease. It remained unclear how sex and gender were considered, evaluated, reported, or analyzed within Covid-19 research. This article evaluates the proportion of Covid-19-related articles which highlighted sex- or gender-specific health content and examines associations with author gender.

Materials and methods

Article records for 134,008 publications indexed in the LitCovid database were extracted on June 1st, 2021. Metadata such as publication year, author names, and country of institutional affiliation were obtained from Elsevier's SCOPUS database by matching PubMed Identifiers (PMIDs). Only articles with matching SCOPUS records were included in the study, resulting in a final sample of 94,488 ar

SUBMITTER: Oyasu A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11838872 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature