PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Katherine M. Wright
AU  - Santina Wheat
AU  - Deborah S. Clements
AU  - Deborah Edberg
TI  - COVID-19 and Gender Differences in Family Medicine Scholarship
AID  - 10.1370/afm.2756
DP  - 2022 Jan 01
TA  - The Annals of Family Medicine
PG  - 32--34
VI  - 20
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/20/1/32.short
4100  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/20/1/32.full
SO  - Ann Fam Med2022 Jan 01; 20
AB  - 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.