Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Authors and Reviewers of American Geophysical Union Journals.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic affected the scientific workforce in many ways. Many worried that stay-at-home orders would disproportionately harm the productivity and well-being of women and early-career scientists, who were expected to shoulder more childcare, homeschooling, and other domestic duties while also interrupting field and lab research, essential for career advancement. AGU journal submission and author and reviewer demographic data allowed us to investigate the effect the pandemic may have had on many Earth and space scientists, especially on women and early career scientists. However, we found that submissions to AGU journals increased during the pandemic as did total submissions from women (with no difference in the proportion). Although the rate at which women agreed to review decr

SUBMITTER: Wooden P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9111140 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature