Open Access: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC-BY License. If a clear gender gap develops, as it appears to be doing in health sciences research, academic institutions and funding agencies may need to address the COVID-19 pandemic–related gender disparities. Further research is needed to determine whether trends in preprint services translate to concrete metrics of academic achievement.Īs the COVID-19 pandemic continues to progress, preprint archiving services may be a useful metric to evaluate real-time academic trends. Limitations of this study include the inference of gender based on first name and that findings among individuals who submit to preprint services may not be generalizable. The difference in our findings between bioRxiv and medRxiv may reflect distinct populations of researchers contributing to each service. The results were consistent in US- and non-US–based analyses. We did not observe a statistically significant change in the corresponding author gender gap in bioRxiv (46% in January 2020 to 47% in April 2020). We observed a statistically significant increase in the corresponding author gender gap in medRxiv (23% in January 2020 to 55% in April 2020), which was unlikely to reflect seasonal variation alone. The present analysis focused on corresponding authors to investigate the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for established investigators because this group may encounter unique challenges requiring specialized solutions (eg, tenure-clock extensions). Tests were considered to be significant with a 2-sided P < .05. We conducted a test for trend using the Somers Delta (Somers D somersd) in Stata, version 16.1 (StataCorp) to assess whether the absolute difference in the percentages of publications between male and female corresponding authors (ie, gender gap) changed over time. We analyzed the most recent version of each article and included data from months with at least 100 unique submissions.
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4 We determined corresponding authors’ institution country of origin using a combination of listed country, the Nature Index, and manual entry. We determined corresponding authors’ gender for 49 924 of 51 249 articles (97%) using first name via Gender API, which includes data on more than 2 million names across 177 countries and has demonstrated superior performance vs similar gender inference services. This study followed the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology ( STROBE) reporting guideline. This study was determined to be exempt from institutional review board approval by MD Anderson Cancer Center. We conducted a cross-sectional study using web-scraped metadata from medRxiv from J(inception), to May 5, 2020, and bioRxiv from January 1, 2019, to May 20, 2020. Shared Decision Making and Communication.Scientific Discovery and the Future of Medicine.Health Care Economics, Insurance, Payment.Clinical Implications of Basic Neuroscience.Challenges in Clinical Electrocardiography.
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