论文标题
生物医学研究出版物的作者中的性别差距
Gender disparity in the authorship of biomedical research publications during the COVID-19 pandemic
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论文摘要
初步证据表明，包括女性研究人员在内的妇女因育儿，老年护理和其他类型的家庭和情感劳动的不平等分配而受到19日大流行的影响不成比例。日常日常工作的突然锁定和突然的转变对生产率的影响不成比例，这反映出生物医学研究的研究成果突然下降，因此影响了科学出版物的女性作者的数量。我们使用生物医学预印式服务器和选定的Springer-Nature Journals的文献计量数据研究了在Covid-19大流行期间发表科学论文的男性和女性研究人员的比例。我们的发现证明了全球大流行期间，女性作者在生物医学领域的出版物数量减少。对于与Covid-19有关的论文，这种效果尤其明显，表明妇女生产的出版物较少，与Covid-19的研究相关。在研究人员数量最多的十个国家中，性别差距的突然增加是持续的。这些结果应用于告知科学界，使Covid-19研究中令人担忧的趋势以及大流行对女性学者的不成比例影响。
Preliminary evidence suggests that women, including female researchers, are disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of unequal distribution of childcare, elderly care and other kinds of domestic and emotional labor. Sudden lockdowns and abrupt shifts in daily routines have disproportionate consequences on their productivity, which is reflected by a sudden drop in research output in biomedical research, consequently affecting the number of female authors of scientific publications. We investigate the proportion of male and female researchers who published scientific papers during the COVID-19 pandemic, using bibliometric data from biomedical preprint servers and selected Springer-Nature journals. Our findings document a decrease in the number of publications by female authors in biomedical field during the global pandemic. This effect is particularly pronounced for papers related to COVID-19, indicating that women are producing fewer publications related to COVID-19 research. This sudden increase in the gender gap is persistent across the ten countries with the highest number of researchers. These results should be used to inform the scientific community of the worrying trend in COVID-19 research and the disproportionate effect that the pandemic has on female academics.
