The representation of women as authors of submissions to ecology journals during the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

Observations made from papers submitted to preprint servers, and the speculation of editors on social media platforms, suggest that women are submitting fewer papers to scholarly journals than are men during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here I examine whether submissions by men and women to six ecology journals (all published by the British Ecological Society) have

Disparities in the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on publishing: Evidence from submissions to Hormones and Behavior

“…The high proportion of women submitting papers to Hormones and Behavior reflects the high proportion of women in neuroendocrinology, which Nicole M. Baran wrote about in an article entitled "How women came to dominate neuroendocrinology" in 2018. The proportion of women submitting to Hormones and Behavior, however, does decline in 2020, consistent with a growing number of reports for other journals (e.g., Andersen et al, 2020;Cui et al, 2020;Muric et al, 2020), though some report no decline (Fox, 2020). Nevertheless, it remains early days, and the negative consequences of COVID-19 for research will likely grow.…”