The impact of COVID-19 on the gender distribution of emergency medicine journal authors

Mannix, Alexandra; Parsons, Melissa; Davenport, Dayle; Monteiro, Sandra; Gottlieb, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.ajem.2021.06.055

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“…Four of these papers indicated that that the proportion of women’s overall authorship in medical journals had decreased when compared with prepandemic levels. 51,58,71,75 Seven papers found no significant difference in the proportion of women’s overall authorship 40,55,57,65,66,76,81 ; 2 papers reported mixed results (1 finding a significant decrease in women first authors from January 1 to July 31, 2020, when compared with the previous year 47 ; and 1 finding a significant decrease in women last authors from April to June 2020 compared with the previous year). 61 One paper reported an increase in the proportion of both women first and last authors after the onset of the pandemic.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Of the 44 articles, only 2 exclusively focused on emergency medicine. 41,55 Given that critical care medicine has some of the lowest representation of women compared with other medical specialties 89 and there continues to be a dearth of diversity in the internal medicine workforce, 90 future research in these specialties is warranted.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…After the removal of 3,301 duplicates, we screened the remaining 8,286 papers, advancing 142 to full-text review. After applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 44 of the 142 articles were selected for extraction 26,39–81 Figure 1 provides a diagram outlining the PRISMA results flowchart.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Academic Productivity of Equity-Deserving Physician Scholars During COVID-19: A Scoping Review

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Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic presented new barriers and exacerbated existing inequities for physician scholars. While COVID-19’s impact on academic productivity among women has received attention, the pandemic may have posed additional challenges for scholars from a wider range of equity-deserving groups, including those who hold multiple equity-deserving identities. To examine this concern, the authors conducted a scoping review of the literature through an intersectionality lens. Method The authors searched peer-reviewed literature published March 1, 2020, to December 16, 2021, in Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid Embase, and PubMed. The authors excluded studies not written in English and/or outside of academic medicine. From included studies, they extracted data regarding descriptions of how COVID-19 impacted academic productivity of equity-deserving physician scholars, analyses on the pandemic’s reported impact on productivity of physician scholars from equity-deserving groups, and strategies provided to reduce the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on academic productivity of physician scholars from equity-deserving groups. Results Of 11,587 unique articles, 44 met inclusion criteria, including 15 nonempirical studies and 29 empirical studies (22 bibliometrics studies, 6 surveys, and 1 qualitative study). All included articles focused on the gendered impact of the pandemic on academic productivity. The majority of their recommendations focused on how to alleviate the burden of the pandemic on women, particularly those in the early stages of their career and/or with children, without consideration of scholars who hold multiple and intersecting identities from a wider range of equity-deserving groups. Conclusions Findings indicate a lack of published literature on the pandemic’s impact on physician scholars from equity-deserving groups, including a lack of consideration of physician scholars who experience multiple forms of discrimination. Well-intentioned measures by academic institutions to reduce the impact on scholars may inadvertently risk reproducing and sustaining inequities that equity-deserving scholars faced during the pandemic.

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Academic Productivity of Equity-Deserving Physician Scholars During COVID-19: A Scoping Review

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“…Four investigators independently obtained the following data using publicly accessible information: month and year of publication, article title, number of authors, and gender distribution of each of the authors. We utilized the Genderize program (https://www.genderize.io) to determine author gender consistent with prior research 2,6 . When the probability was <0.90, we reviewed the author's faculty profiles and utilized the gender pronouns used in their biographies.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We defined gender using Genderize, which is an online platform that has been previously utilized for this. 2,6 It is possible this may have miscategorized some authors because it relies on first names rather than directly surveying the authors themselves. However, it would not have been feasible to directly survey each author.…”

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