Impact of COVID-19 on longitudinal ophthalmology authorship gender trends.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic increased the gender gap in academic publishing. This study assesses COVID-19's impact on ophthalmology gender authorship distribution and compares the gender authorship proportion of COVID-19 ophthalmology-related articles to previous ophthalmology articles.

Methods

This cohort study includes authors listed in all publications related to ophthalmology in the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset and CDC COVID-19 research database. Articles from 65 ophthalmology journals from January to July 2020 were selected. All previous articles published in the same journals were extracted from PubMed. Gender-API determined authors' gender.

Results

Out of 119,457 COVID-19-related articles, we analyzed 528 ophthalmology-related articles written by 2518 au

SUBMITTER: Nguyen AX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7857347 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature