Mazzalai Elena, Turatto Federica, De Vito Corrado
Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Front Public Health. 2022 Jun 30;10:818594. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.818594. eCollection 2022.
Worldwide, concerns rise on how COVID-19 pandemic impacted heavily on women, even on those belonging to the scientific community. The Italian scientific production regarding the COVID-19 throughout the first months of the health emergency could help to understand the heft of female researchers in this unique period.
This study aims to investigate the gender gap in the scientific production on COVID-19 in Italy during the first months of the pandemic.
A systematic search of the literature was conducted and, for each included study, first and last author's gender, type of study, number of co-authors, type of affiliation, journal's Impact Factor (IF) and specialization were extracted. Descriptive and univariate analyses were performed.
22.2% of the articles were signed by a woman as first author, 18.1% as last authors. Female authorship was less frequent than male authorship regardless of the type of study, number of co-authors, type of affiliation and field of specialization.
This analysis reveal a low prevalence of studies with a female first or last author and suggests that the low share of female authors publishing on COVID-19 during the considered timespan is a transversal issue throughout the Italian medical field.
在全球范围内，人们越来越关注新冠疫情对女性产生的重大影响，甚至对科学界的女性也是如此。意大利在卫生紧急情况的头几个月里关于新冠疫情的科研成果有助于了解这一特殊时期女性研究人员的影响力。
本研究旨在调查疫情头几个月意大利关于新冠疫情科研成果中的性别差距。
对文献进行系统检索，并提取每项纳入研究的第一作者和最后作者的性别、研究类型、合著者数量、所属机构类型、期刊影响因子（IF）和专业领域。进行描述性和单变量分析。
22.2%的文章第一作者为女性，18.1%的文章最后作者为女性。无论研究类型、合著者数量、所属机构类型和专业领域如何，女性作者的比例都低于男性作者。
该分析显示第一作者或最后作者为女性的研究比例较低，并表明在所考虑的时间段内，发表关于新冠疫情文章的女性作者比例较低是整个意大利医学领域的一个普遍问题。
