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

Ryan, M.; Tuke, J.; Hutchinson, Mark R.; Spencer, Sarah J.

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115761

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“…Women with very young or school-age children showed even lower submission rates (Krukowski et al 2021), with women attributing this decline to increased childcare and at-home education responsibilities during school and daycare closures (Caldarulo et al 2022). In the Paleobiology dataset, we observed that binary gender parity recovered in 2021, as also noted by Ryan and colleagues (2023) in a survey of journals indexed by PubMed. We urge caution in interpreting this result.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

Repairing the scaffolding: women authors in Paleobiology

Arens,

Holguin,

Sandoval

2023

Paleobiology

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Women are underrepresented in paleontology. Despite more women students, representation at senior levels remains low. To advance professionally, scientists must disseminate their research through peer-reviewed publications. We examine gendered authorship patterns in Paleobiology to ask whether the publishing infrastructure supports the Paleontological Society's gender-equity goals. We reviewed all papers published in Paleobiology from its inception in 1975 through 2021. For each paper, we recorded each author, the author's position in the author list, and the total number of authors on each paper. We coded gender based on a combination of personal communication and pronouns used in publicly available information. We compared author demographics with anonymized membership data from the Paleontological Society. Over the journal's run, the number of authors per paper increased due to cultural shifts toward collaborative work and acknowledging student contributions with coauthorship. These trends contribute to proportionally more women authors, beginning in the early 2000s. Despite these increases, women remain chronically underrepresented. In 2018, 2019, and 2021, the proportion of women authors in Paleobiology paralleled membership in the Paleontological Society. However, in 2020, Paleobiology published fewer women authors than expected based on society membership. This echoes declines in women's scholarly productivity in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic observed across many disciplines. We offer four recommendations: (1) practice double-anonymous peer review; (2) recruit editors from diverse backgrounds who invite reviewers with diverse backgrounds; (3) democratize manuscript review by selecting reviewers from a disaggregated reviewer database; and (4) gather and analyze demographic data for both submissions and publications.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

Repairing the scaffolding: women authors in Paleobiology

Arens,

Holguin,

Sandoval

2023

Paleobiology

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“…Lockdowns are the most challenging intervention that may yield the most undesirable consequences for pandemic management [81]. Lockdowns caused important consequences, ranging from limiting people's social and family life [82], which impacted mental health [83] as well as overall health and lifestyles [84], but also triggered disruptions in industry, supply chains, tourism, and energy [85]. The offsetting of the impact of these measures, and even their introduction, was easier for the HICs [86], although these effects were not uniform.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges to Global Health Emerging from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Albreht

2023

Sustainability

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The COVID-19 pandemic deepened challenges and opened new fronts where old and unresolved problems met with new problems triggered by the pandemic itself. There are several issues, problems, and challenges related to the post-COVID world we are in. This paper discusses some of them from different perspectives and elaborates on the future challenges and their solutions, which need to be tackled. Apart from the pre-existing problems, we are now also facing new military conflicts, interrupted supply chains, even in medicines supplies, as well as the worsening of climate change, further complicated by the military conflicts and a potential new global economic crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic left the world with many uncertainties about the future as there seem to be few answers ready to tackle the combination of the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic coupled with the pre-existing problems and challenges. Inequalities in terms of socio-economic differences and inequalities in health are driving disease burden, which will again be marked by the population aging and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Global collaboration and the joint search for solutions to global challenges have become inevitable. Research into behavioral determinants of health and health promotion are essential in understanding the sources of controversy regarding and resistance to proven public health interventions.

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“…Prior research has shown that the gender gap in journal authorship increased during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic due to increased family responsibilities that women disproportionately bear (Bell and Fong 2021; Squazzoni et al 2021;Viglione 2020). Other scholars, by contrast, have not found clear effects of the pandemic on the gender gap of authors; rather, they find that the effects vary by discipline, with some being more resilient (Jemielniak, Slawska, and Wilamowski 2023; see also Ryan et al 2023). …our analyses indicate that the effects on the output and processes of Politics and Religion were not immediate and did not substantially alter the gender distribution of submission authors.…”

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Politics and Religion’s Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Lewis,

Tepe

2024

APSC

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At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, scholars predicted that this transboundary crisis would cause enormous change and disruption, not only to global health but also to many areas of productivity, including academic life (Donina and Antonowicz 2022; Lewis 2021; Witze 2020). Although the impact has been widespread and devastating to public health, it has not triggered the dramatic changes to the academy that might have been predicted, particularly in the areas of scholarship.

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

Cited by 5 publications

References 48 publications

Repairing the scaffolding: women authors in Paleobiology

Repairing the scaffolding: women authors in Paleobiology

Challenges to Global Health Emerging from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Politics and Religion’s Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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