Further divided gender gaps in research productivity and collaboration during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from coronavirus-related literature

Gender-specific effects of COVID-19 lockdowns on scientific publishing productivity: Impact and resilience

“…These data suggest that the capacity of women to transition rapidly to new work and new publications was compromised early in the pandemic. Our data accord with other observations that women published proportionally less COVID-19-related work than men in 2020 in biomedical fields ( Lerchenmuller et al, 2021 ; Andersen et al, 2020 ; DeFilippis et al, 2021 ; Gayet-Ageron et al, 2021 ; Liu et al, 2022 ). Encouragingly, though, this deficit in COVID-19-related publishing seems to be normalizing as the pandemic continues.…”

“…With an assessment of 332,458 articles about COVID-19 or related coronaviruses, Liu et al conclude that women had a smaller increase in first authorship than men in 2019–2020, mixed-gender collaboration was reduced, and articles authored by women were cited less often than expected based on pre-pandemic citation rates. Encouragingly, they found pre-pandemic publishing and citation levels were restored by September 2020 ( Liu et al, 2022 ). Brown et al (980 articles) show no association between COVID-19 status and having at least one woman first author overall, except that COVID-19-related publications by women were less likely to be invited works ( Brown et al, 2021 ) and Gabster et al's work reflected this with fewer women publishing commentaries on COVID-19 in the Lancet from January to May 2020 than published commentaries in 2018 ( Gabster et al, 2020 ).…”

The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on gendered research productivity and its correlates

“…Saying that, one significant observation was that fewer females were presented as first authors and had fewer submission rates compared with males ( Bell & Fong, 2021 ; Kibbe, 2020 ; Lerchenmüller et al, 2021 ). One of the most recent and notable studies ( Liu et al, 2022 ) covered published papers on the COVID-19 open research dataset up to September 2020 in 50 countries and found that female researchers were negatively affected as the first author and showed low contribution and less collaboration with male colleagues during the pandemic. This study by Liu et al (2022) shows particularly strong evidence because it tried its best efforts to control any confounding factors related to the changes in female productivity.…”

“…One of the most recent and notable studies ( Liu et al, 2022 ) covered published papers on the COVID-19 open research dataset up to September 2020 in 50 countries and found that female researchers were negatively affected as the first author and showed low contribution and less collaboration with male colleagues during the pandemic. This study by Liu et al (2022) shows particularly strong evidence because it tried its best efforts to control any confounding factors related to the changes in female productivity. It employed a difference-in-difference (DID) approach for the fair comparison with a control group.…”

Career, Covid-19, and Care: (Gendered) Impacts of the Pandemic on the Work of Communication Scholars

“…"Gendered structures" are generally "permeating academic institutions" (Bender et al, 2022, p. 48) as a working field, as the "structuring effects of gendering processes…conform with the structures of dominance" (Becker-Schmidt, 2002, p. 26). Research has shown that female academics have fewer career prospects than males (Le Feuvre et al, 2018;Liu et al, 2022). This is also true for German-speaking communication studies (Riesmeyer & Huber, 2012, p. 16)-a working field that was once described as a "gendered organization" (Prommer et al, 2006).…”