Orchard Christa, Smith Peter M, Kromhout Hans
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Institute for Work and Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Occup Environ Med. 2022 Jun;79(6):361-364. doi: 10.1136/oemed-2021-107915. Epub 2022 Feb 17.
To explore whether the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted productivity of female academics in the field of occupational and environmental health, by examining trends in male and female authorship of submissions during and prior to the COVID-19 pandemic in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Administrative data on submissions between January 2017 and November 2021 were obtained through databases held at BMJ journals. Author gender was identified using an existing algorithm based on matching names to social media accounts. The number and proportion of female and male primary (first) and senior (last) authors were examined for each quarter, and the average change in share of monthly submissions from male authors in the months since the pandemic compared with corresponding months prior to the pandemic were identified using regression models estimating least squares means.
Among 2286 (64.7%) and 2335 (66.1%) manuscripts for which first and last author gender were identified, respectively, 49.3% of prepandemic submissions were from male first authors, increasing to 55.4% in the first year of the pandemic (difference of 6.1%, 95% CI 1.3% to 10.7%), before dropping to 46.6% from April 2021 onwards. Quarterly counts identified a large increase in submissions from male authors during the first year after the onset of the pandemic, and a smaller increase from female authors. The proportion of male last authors did not change significantly during the pandemic.
These findings suggest that there has been an increase in male productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic within the field of occupational and environmental health research that is present to a lesser extent among women.
通过研究《职业与环境卫生医学》在新冠疫情期间及之前投稿的男性和女性作者趋势，探讨新冠疫情是否影响了职业与环境卫生领域女性学者的生产力。
通过BMJ期刊数据库获取2017年1月至2021年11月期间投稿的管理数据。使用基于姓名与社交媒体账户匹配的现有算法确定作者性别。每季度检查女性和男性第一（首位）和资深（末位）作者的数量及比例，并使用估计最小二乘均值的回归模型确定疫情后几个月男性作者每月投稿份额与疫情前相应月份相比的平均变化。
在分别确定了第一作者和末位作者性别的2286篇（64.7%）和2335篇（66.1%）手稿中，疫情前投稿的49.3%来自男性第一作者，在疫情第一年增至55.4%（差异为6.1%，95%CI 1.3%至10.7%），之后从2021年4月起降至46.6%。季度统计数据显示，疫情爆发后第一年男性作者的投稿大幅增加，女性作者的投稿增加幅度较小。疫情期间男性末位作者的比例没有显著变化。
这些发现表明，在新冠疫情期间，职业与环境卫生研究领域男性的生产力有所提高，而女性的提高幅度较小。
