Table 1. Final Boolean search string used in full literature search for texts since 2020.

Terms in italics were added using litsearchR.

Concept group	PICO group	Terms
Academia	Population	(academi* OR author* OR database* OR journal* OR research OR scien*)
Gender	Population	AND (female* OR gender OR male* OR men OR women)
Pandemic	Intervention	AND (coronavirus OR covid OR pandemic)
Inequality	Comparator	AND (bias* OR disparit* OR disproportion* OR fewer OR gap OR "gender difference*" OR imbalance* OR inequalit* OR inequit* OR parity OR "sex difference*" OR skew* OR unequal)
Productivity	Outcome	AND (performan* OR publication* OR publish* OR productiv*)
Exclusion of biomedical studies	Population	AND NOT (experiment OR laboratory OR mortality OR surviv* OR "acute respiratory" OR gis OR icu OR risk OR rna OR symptoms)