TY - JOUR T1 - COVID-19 and Gender Differences in Family Medicine Scholarship JF - The Annals of Family Medicine JO - Ann Fam Med SP - 32 LP - 34 DO - 10.1370/afm.2756 VL - 20 IS - 1 AU - Katherine M. Wright AU - Santina Wheat AU - Deborah S. Clements AU - Deborah Edberg Y1 - 2022/01/01 UR - http://www.annfammed.org/content/20/1/32.abstract N2 - This bibliometric analysis seeks to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted submission rates to Annals of Family Medicine by gender. Women represented 46.3% of all manuscript submissions included in our study (n = 1,964/4,238), spanning from January 1, 2015 to July 15, 2020. The overall volume of submissions increased during COVID-19 in comparison to pre-pandemic months; however, this increase was not evenly distributed among men and women (122% increase vs 101% increase, respectively). In the early months of the pandemic, 244 submissions were authored by men (58.5%), and 173 submissions were authored by women (41.5%). The gap in women’s submission rates is troubling, as it suggests they may be at greater risk of falling behind male colleagues during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. ER -