Since the initial reports of a cluster of pneumonia cases of unidentified origin in Wuhan,
China, in December 2019, the novel coronavirus that causes this disease—severe acute …

Parents in academic careers face notable challenges that may go unrecognized by
university management and/or policy makers. The COVID-19 pandemic has shed light on …

The science of science has attracted growing research interests, partly due to the increasing
availability of large-scale datasets capturing the innerworkings of science. These datasets …

In disciplines outside of communication, papers with women as first and last (ie senior)
authors attract fewer citations than papers with men in those positions. Using data from 14 …

Objective Concerns have been raised that the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted research
productivity to the disadvantage of women in academia, particularly in early career stages. In …

Publications are essential for a successful academic career, and there is evidence that the
COVID-19 pandemic has amplified existing gender disparities in the publishing process. We …

Name-based gender classification has enabled hundreds of otherwise infeasible scientific
studies of gender. Yet, the lack of standardization, reliance on paid services, understudied …

The authors wanted to verify a popular belief that women scholars have been
disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We studied the first names of …

With a 'downpour'of studies being published there is an increasing need to synthesize
existing research to inform policy, practice and research. Umbrella reviews adopt explicit …

Much of the available evidence regarding COVID-19 effects on the scientific community in
the US is anecdotal and non-representative. We report findings from a based survey of …