RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 COVID-19 and Gender Differences in Family Medicine Scholarship
JF The Annals of Family Medicine
JO Ann Fam Med
FD American Academy of Family Physicians
SP 32
OP 34
DO 10.1370/afm.2756
VO 20
IS 1
A1 Katherine M. Wright
A1 Santina Wheat
A1 Deborah S. Clements
A1 Deborah Edberg
YR 2022
UL http://www.annfammed.org/content/20/1/32.abstract
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.