From the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
the Dallas Plastic Surgery Institute.
Plast Reconstr Surg. 2023 Jun 1;151(6):1035e-1042e. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000010179. Epub 2023 Jan 9.
The coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had far-reaching consequences, occasionally amplifying preexisting disparities. This study examines the impact of COVID-19 on Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (PRS) manuscript submissions by female authors.
All manuscripts submitted to PRS during the months of March and April of 2018 through 2021 were examined. Gender of the first, corresponding, and senior authors was confirmed using Gender API; the country of the author was abstracted; and appropriate statistical comparisons were made.
There were 2512 submissions to PRS during the study period, with a statistically significant increase observed between 2019 and 2020 ( P = 0.008). Despite this significant increase, the proportion of publications by female corresponding and senior authors decreased significantly with the onset of the pandemic ( P < 0.001 for both). This decrease was mirrored by a significant increase in the proportion of male senior and corresponding author publications ( P < 0.001 for both) and female first author publications ( P = 0.002).
Despite a significant increase in overall submissions to PRS during the COVID-19 pandemic, the proportion submitted by senior and corresponding female authors declined. Although causality cannot be determined by the authors' methodology, their findings suggest a disproportionate burden on senior female authors during the pandemic with unclear academic repercussions.
2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行造成了深远的影响，偶尔会放大先前存在的差异。本研究探讨了 COVID-19 对女性作者提交的整形与重建外科学（PRS）手稿的影响。
检查了 2018 年 3 月至 2021 年 4 月期间提交给 PRS 的所有手稿。使用 Gender API 确认第一作者、通讯作者和资深作者的性别；提取作者所在国家；并进行了适当的统计比较。
在研究期间，共有 2512 份手稿提交给 PRS，2019 年至 2020 年期间观察到统计学上的显著增加（P = 0.008）。尽管有这种显著的增加，但随着大流行的开始，女性通讯作者和资深作者的出版物比例显著下降（两者均 P < 0.001）。这种下降与男性资深作者和通讯作者出版物比例的显著增加（两者均 P < 0.001）以及女性第一作者出版物比例的显著增加（P = 0.002）相吻合。
尽管 COVID-19 大流行期间 PRS 的总体提交量显著增加，但由资深和通讯女性作者提交的比例下降。尽管作者的方法无法确定因果关系，但他们的发现表明，在大流行期间，资深女性作者承担了不成比例的负担，其对学术的影响尚不清楚。
