Was the COVID-19 Pandemic Associated with Gender Disparities in Authorship of Manuscripts Submitted to Clinical Neuropsychology Journals?

OBJECTIVE: The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated gender disparities in some academic disciplines. This study examined the association of the pandemic with gender authorship disparities in clinical neuropsychology (CN) journals.

METHOD: Author bylines of 1,018 initial manuscript submissions to four major CN journals from March 15 through September 15 of both 2019 and 2020 were coded for binary gender. Additionally, authorship of 40 articles published on pandemic-related topics (COVID-19, teleneuropsychology) across nine CN journals were coded for binary gender.

RESULTS: Initial submissions to these four CN journals increased during the pandemic (+27.2%), with comparable increases in total number of authors coded as either women (+23.0%) or men (+25.4%). Neither the average percentage of women on manuscript bylines nor the proportion of women who were lead and/or corresponding authors differed significantly across time. Moreover, the representation of women as authors of pandemic-related articles did not differ from expected frequencies in the field.

CONCLUSIONS: Findings suggest that representation of women as authors of peer-reviewed manuscript submissions to some CN journals did not change during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Future studies might examine how risk and protective factors may have influenced individual differences in scientific productivity during the pandemic.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:29

Enthalten in:

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS - 29(2023), 1 vom: 09. Jan., Seite 105-109

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Babicz, Michelle A [VerfasserIn]
Matchanova, Anastasia [VerfasserIn]
Broomfield, Robiann [VerfasserIn]
DesRuisseaux, Libby A [VerfasserIn]
Gereau, Michelle M [VerfasserIn]
Brothers, Stacey L [VerfasserIn]
Radigan, Lauren [VerfasserIn]
Porter, Erik [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Gregory P [VerfasserIn]
Rapport, Lisa J [VerfasserIn]
Suchy, Yana [VerfasserIn]
Yeates, Keith Owen [VerfasserIn]
Woods, Steven Paul [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Bibliometrics
Female
Journal Article
Male
Peer review
Publications
SARS-CoV-2

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Date Completed 13.01.2023

Date Revised 31.01.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1017/S1355617721001375

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM334164753