Was the COVID-19 Pandemic Associated with Gender Disparities in Authorship of Manuscripts Submitted to Clinical Neuropsychology Journals?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Paul Woods
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Productivity ◽  
Scientific Output ◽  
Gender Disparities ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Clinical Neuropsychology ◽  
Average Percentage ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Databases ◽  
Binary Gender

Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated gender disparities in scientific output in some academic disciplines. Clinical neuropsychology has a history of gender disparities in multiple professional domains, including authorship on peer-reviewed manuscripts. This study examined the association of the COVID-19 pandemic with gender authorship disparities in clinical neuropsychology journals. Method: The author bylines of 1,018 initial manuscript submissions to four major clinical neuropsychology journals from March 15 through September 15 of both 2019 and 2020 were coded for binary gender using estimates from national databases. In addition, authorship of 40 articles published on pandemic-related topics (e.g., COVID-19, teleneuropsychology) across nine clinical neuropsychology journals were also coded for binary gender. Results: Initial submissions to clinical neuropsychology journals increased by 27.2% during the pandemic, with comparable increases in the total number of authors coded as either women (+23.0%) or men (+25.4%). Neither the average percentage of women on manuscript bylines nor the proportion of women who were lead and/or corresponding authors differed significantly across time. Moreover, the representation of women as authors of pandemic-related articles did not differ from expected frequencies in the field. Conclusions: These encouraging findings suggest that representation of women as authors of peer-reviewed manuscript submissions to clinical neuropsychology journals did not change during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic as compared to the prior year. Future studies might examine the roles of risk (e.g., caretaking responsibilities) and protective (e.g., sponsorship, resilience) factors that might influence individual differences in scientific productivity during the pandemic.

Was the COVID-19 Pandemic Associated with Gender Disparities in Authorship of Manuscripts Submitted to Clinical Neuropsychology Journals?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Michelle A. Babicz ◽  
Anastasia Matchanova ◽  
Robiann Broomfield ◽  
Libby A. DesRuisseaux ◽  
Michelle M. Gereau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Scientific Productivity ◽  
Gender Disparities ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Clinical Neuropsychology ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Average Percentage ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Number Of Authors ◽  
Binary Gender

Abstract Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated gender disparities in some academic disciplines. This study examined the association of the pandemic with gender authorship disparities in clinical neuropsychology (CN) journals. Method: Author bylines of 1,018 initial manuscript submissions to four major CN journals from March 15 through September 15 of both 2019 and 2020 were coded for binary gender. Additionally, authorship of 40 articles published on pandemic-related topics (COVID-19, teleneuropsychology) across nine CN journals were coded for binary gender. Results: Initial submissions to these four CN journals increased during the pandemic (+27.2%), with comparable increases in total number of authors coded as either women (+23.0%) or men (+25.4%). Neither the average percentage of women on manuscript bylines nor the proportion of women who were lead and/or corresponding authors differed significantly across time. Moreover, the representation of women as authors of pandemic-related articles did not differ from expected frequencies in the field. Conclusions: Findings suggest that representation of women as authors of peer-reviewed manuscript submissions to some CN journals did not change during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Future studies might examine how risk and protective factors may have influenced individual differences in scientific productivity during the pandemic.

scholarly journals 37 years of scientific activity in a Biochemistry Department in Brazil: patterns of growth and factors leading to increased productivity

2011 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 1121-1130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Urubatã E. Gomes ◽  
Diogo L. de Oliveira ◽  
Luciana C. Berti ◽  
Olavo Amaral ◽  
Diogo O. Souza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Scientific Productivity ◽  
Scientific Output ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Centers Of Excellence ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Evaluation Systems ◽  
Temporal Course ◽  
History Of

Scientific activity in Brazil has experienced an accelerated growth in the past decades, with an increase in productivity that greatly surpasses the international average. This growth has occurred mostly at the expense of centers of excellence in public universities, which account for the vast majority of the country's scientific output. The aim of this study was to evaluate the production of the Department of Biochemistry of a large public university in southern Brazil (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), as well as to identify internal and external policies that have influenced this growing production profile. We have performed a historical analysis of the scientific output of this Department of Biochemistry, which accounts for a considerable share of the indexed scientific production at this university. By focusing on the temporal course of its growth and drawing correlations between scientific output and important events in the history of the Department of Biochemistry and of the Brazilian science policies, we concluded that internal factors (as the creation of a postgraduation program, collaboration among researchers, experienced abroad researchers, qualification of faculty members) and external factors (as investments in the postgraduate education, the establishment of national scientific policies, such as financial stimuli for productive researchers and evaluation systems) influence scientific productivity in Brazil.

Gender Disparities in the Author Bylines of Articles Published in Clinical Neuropsychology Journals from 1985 to 2019

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Matchanova ◽  
Michelle A. Babicz ◽  
Jennifer L. Thompson ◽  
Briana Johnson ◽  
Irene J. Ke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Women In Leadership ◽  
Gender Disparities ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Women Authors ◽  
Clinical Neuropsychology ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Female Authorship ◽  
Child Neuropsychology

Objective: Women are becoming more prevalent in clinical neuropsychology, but gender bias and disparities persist across multiple professional domains. This study examined potential gender disparities in historical authorship trends across commonly read journals in clinical neuropsychology. Method: Analyses were conducted on 10,531 articles published in six clinical neuropsychology journals from 1985 to 2019. Each author was coded as either a man or a woman using the OpenGenderTracking Project database. Results: On average, women comprised 43.3% ( 30.6) of the authors listed in clinical neuropsychology article bylines and were lead and/or corresponding author on 50.3% of these papers. Findings varied by journal, with Child Neuropsychology having the best representation of women across several study metrics. Women comprised an increasing proportion of authors over time and the gender gap in clinical neuropsychology is smaller than was recently reported for the broader field of psychology; nevertheless, the recent rates of female authorship lag behind the prevalence of women in clinical neuropsychology. Encouragingly, gender was not associated with the number of times an article was cited. Articles that included women in leadership roles had significantly more authors overall and specifically more women authors. Conclusions: Women are under-represented as authors in clinical neuropsychology journals, but they are becoming more common and their papers are cited just as frequently as their male colleagues. Efforts to increase women as research mentors and sponsors may help to further close the publishing gender gap in clinical neuropsychology.

Sex Differences in Variability in Vocational Interests: Evidence from Two Large Samples

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 568-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katja Paessler
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Vocational Interests ◽  
Gender Disparities ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Large Samples ◽  
Specific Analysis ◽  
Social Interests ◽  
Physical Attributes

Greater male variability has been established in cognitive abilities and physical attributes. This study investigated sex differences in variability in vocational interests with two large samples (N > 40 000 and N > 70 000). The results show that although men varied more in Realistic and Enterprising interests, women varied more in Artistic and Conventional interests. These differences in variability had considerable influence on the female–male tail ratios in vocational interests that have been found to contribute to reported gender disparities in certain fields of work and academic disciplines. Moreover, differences in means and variability interacted non–linearly in shaping tail–ratio imbalances. An age–specific analysis additionally revealed that differences in variability diminished with age: Older samples showed smaller differences in variance in Realistic, Artistic, and Social interests than younger samples. Thus, I found no evidence that greater male variability applies for vocational interests in general. Copyright © 2015 European Association of Personality Psychology

Unequal Opportunities

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 109-129
Author(s):  
Miranda J. Banks
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Committee Report ◽  
Broadcast Television ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
History Of ◽  
Statistical Survey ◽  
Unequal Opportunities

This article examines the precarity of labor for women working in US broadcast television during the long 1970s, focusing on interventions by government agencies, trade unions, and individual writers and producers, with a particular focus on the Writers Guild of America (WGA) 1974 Women's Committee Report, the first major statistical survey to track the representation of women as creatives within American television. This article puts qualitative and quantitative data in direct conversation: where one captures the nuances of personal experience and the other highlights the extent of inequality, together they help fill gaps in understanding the long history of struggles for equity in media production.

scholarly journals ADVANCING Women Academic Faculty in STEM Careers: The Role of Critical HRD in Supporting Diversity and Inclusion

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly M. Hutchins ◽  
Jamison V. Kovach
Keyword(s):  
Human Resource Development ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Resource Development ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Academic Faculty ◽  
Disciplinary Expertise ◽  
And Mathematics

The Problem The low representation of women and women of color (WoC) faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) academic disciplines represents a critical talent development issue by constraining universities from being truly diverse and inclusive therefore limiting the development and advancement of women scientists. The Solution We describe the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) ADVANCE program as a mechanism for increasing STEM women and WoC faculty career development, inclusion, and advancement. We situate this program as a critical human resource development (CHRD) project and analyze the interventions of ADVANCE Centers at five institutions using a coding scheme based on Acker’s theory of organizational gendering. We identify how key interventions address gendered processes and how these efforts align with human resource development (HRD) disciplinary expertise. The Stakeholders This article will benefit HRD scholars and professionals by identifying how HRD disciplinary expertise can be used to support institutional change efforts focused on faculty diversity and inclusion.

scholarly journals The Ladies Vanish?

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 519-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Luo ◽  
Julia Adams ◽  
Hannah Brueckner
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
History Of Sociology ◽  
American Sociology ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Disciplinary History ◽  
History Of

AbstractMany notable female sociologists have vanished from the canonical history of American sociology. As the most influential crowd-sourced encyclopedia, Wikipedia promises – but does not necessarily deliver – a democratic corrective to the generation of knowledge, including academic knowledge. This article explores multiple mechanisms by which women either enter or disappear from the disciplinary record by analyzing the unfolding interaction between the canonical disciplinary history of sociology and Wikipedia. We argue that the uneven representation of women sociologists as (1) remembered, (2) neglected, (3) erased or, finally, (4) recovered is shaped by the emerging interactional space of knowledge production.

History of Neuropsychology in Asia

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatia M.C. Lee ◽  
Wang Kai ◽  
Simon L. Collinson
Keyword(s):  
Information Exchange ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Clinical Neuropsychology ◽  
The West ◽  
Multiple Processes ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
External Forces ◽  
Brain Behavior

Clinical neuropsychology in Asia has emerged from the interactions of multiple processes, including the development of psychology and its subdisciplines worldwide, the entering of psychology into Asia and ongoing intellectual influences from outside of Asia, indigenous responses to those external forces, and homegrown initiatives in studying brain-behavior relationships prior to and since the beginnings of modern neuropsychology. This chapter reviews the history of neuropsychology in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and other Asian regions. With globalization and increasing ease of information exchange, neuropsychological practice in Asia will continue to be shaped by influence from the West interacting with the indigenization process to shape the development of neuropsychology in Asia. Rapid development of neuroscience leads to cutting-edge findings and discovery of brain-behavior relationships, which has and will continue to be one of the rich sources of information that guides and shapes neuropsychological practice in Asia and worldwide.

scholarly journals Lifetime prevalence of non-suicidal self-injury in patients with eating disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (7) ◽  
pp. 1345-1358 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Cucchi ◽  
D. Ryan ◽  
G. Konstantakopoulos ◽  
S. Stroumpa ◽  
A. Ş. Kaçar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Weighted Average ◽  
Average Percentage ◽  
Lifetime History ◽  
Self Injury ◽  
History Of ◽  
Meta Analyses

BackgroundAgainst a backdrop of increasing research, clinical and taxonomic attention in non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), evidence suggests a link between NSSI and eating disorders (ED). The frequency estimates of NSSI in ED vary widely. Little is known about the sources of this variation, and no meta-analysis has quantified the association between ED and NSSI.MethodUsing random-effects meta-analyses, meta-regression analyses, and 1816–6466 unique participants with various ED, we estimated the weighted average percentage of individuals with ED, those with anorexia nervosa (AN) and those with bulimia nervosa (BN) who are reported to have a lifetime history of NSSI across studies. We further examined predictors of NSSI in ED.ResultsThe weighted average percentage of patients with a lifetime history of NSSI was 27.3% [95% confidence interval (CI) 23.8–31.0%] for ED, 21.8% (95% CI 18.5–25.6%) for AN, and 32.7% (95% CI 26.9–39.1%) for BN. The difference between BN and AN was statistically significant [odds ratio (OR) 1.77, 95% CI 1.14–2.77, p = 0.013]. The odds of NSSI increased by 24% for every 10% increase in the percentage of participants with histories of suicide attempts (OR 1.24, 95% CI 1.04–1.48, p = 0.020) and decreased by 26% for every 10% increase in the percentage of participants with histories of substance abuse (OR 0.74, 95% CI 0.58–0.95, p = 0.023).ConclusionsIn the specific context of ED, NSSI is highly prevalent and correlates positively with attempted suicide, urging for NSSI-focused treatments. A novel finding is that NSSI is potentially antagonized by substance abuse.

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