Table 3 Percent of corresponding authorship by gender for pre-pandemic and pandemic periods, by journal category.

From: Scientific authorship by gender: trends before and during a global pandemic

 

Pre-pandemic period

Pandemic period

Change

Category (no. of journals)

% Male

% Female

% Non-binary

% Male

% Female

% Non-binary

% Female

Astronomy and astrophysics (2)

89.5

10.3

0.2

89.6

10.3

0.1

0.0

Bioscience (15)

80.6

19.3

0.0

78.0

22.0

0.1

2.6

Environmental science (9)

80.5

19.5

0.1

78.3

21.5

0.1

2.1

Interdisciplinary (7)

89.8

10.1

0.1

84.7

15.2

0.1

5.1

Materials (22)

82.7

17.2

0.0

80.0

19.9

0.1

2.7

Mathematics (7)

88.4

11.5

0.1

86.6

13.2

0.2

1.7

Physics (29)

85.1

14.8

0.1

83.6

16.3

0.1

1.5

  1. The percent change for men is −1 times that of women (e.g., −2.6% change for bioscience for men). Some journals contributed to more than one category. Submissions from countries with unclear pandemic period information or submissions without specified gender were excluded.
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