Female authorship of covid-19 research in manuscripts submitted to 11 biomedical journals: cross sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe prominent authorship positions held by women and the overall percentage of women co-authoring manuscripts submitted during the covid-19 pandemic compared with the previous two years.

Design

Cross sectional study.

Setting

Nine specialist and two large general medical journals.

Population

Authors of research manuscripts submitted between 1 January 2018 and 31 May 2021.

Main outcome measures

Primary outcome: first author's gender.

Secondary outcomes

last and corresponding authors' gender; number (percentage) of women on authorship byline in "pre-pandemic" period (1 January 2018 to 31 December 2019) and in "covid-19" and "non-covid-19" manuscripts during pandemic.

Results

A total of 63 259 manuscripts were included. The nu

SUBMITTER: Gayet-Ageron A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8493599 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature