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. 2021 Oct 20;16(10):e0257919. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0257919

Table 3. Mixed effects models predicting February-May 2020 changes in the number of submissions per area of research.

Health & Medicine Life Sciences Physical Sciences & Engineering Social Sciences & Economics
Women −0.080 −0.0003 −0.016 −0.028
(0.008) (0.008) (0.008) (0.012)
p <0.001 p = 0.973 p = 0.055 p = 0.016
Doctor 0.089 0.009 0.058 0.026
(0.007) (0.006) (0.006) (0.009)
p <0.001 p = 0.126 p <0.001 p = 0.004
Professor 0.163 0.017 0.091 0.013
(0.008) (0.007) (0.007) (0.010)
p <0.001 p = 0.020 p <0.001 p = 0.217
Women×Doctor −0.027 −0.021 −0.016 0.005
(0.009) (0.009) (0.010) (0.014)
p = 0.005 p = 0.022 p = 0.115 p = 0.708
Women×Professor −0.065 −0.010 0.001 0.011
(0.013) (0.012) (0.014) (0.018)
p <0.001 p = 0.405 p = 0.971 p = 0.552
Intercept 0.314 0.172 0.182 0.188
(0.019) (0.016) (0.017) (0.015)
p <0.001 p <0.001 p <0.001 p <0.001
Observations 847892 571051 1026221 195157
Log Likelihood −1635935 −984773 −2180291 −314846

The baseline is represented by the average of corresponding months in 2018 and 2019. Models include as predictor the title of each author with no title used as reference category. Random intercepts included for countries.