Table 2 The proportional percent of times that male and female data was found in the supplemental section as opposed to in the main body of the paper in our sample.

From: An analysis of neuroscience and psychiatry papers published from 2009 and 2019 outlines opportunities for increasing discovery of sex differences

Discipline

Mean ± SEM 2009

Mean ± SEM 2019

Neuroscience

3.9 ± 2.0 (n = 3)

4.2 ± 4.2 (n = 14)

Psychiatry

1.2 ± 1.2 (n = 6)

6.9 ± 2.1 (n = 16)

  1. There were no significant differences by year or discipline (main effect of year: F(1,8) = 1.342, p = 0.280; main effect of discipline: F(1,8) = 0.0006, p = 0.994, interaction: F(1,8) = 1.0893, p = 0.327). Overall four percent of papers sampled referred to data on males and females in the supplemental section. n = number of papers.
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