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

Table 4. 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 −0.056 −0.058 −0.052 −0.053
(0.016) (0.016) (0.020) (0.026)
p = 0.001 p < 0.001 p = 0.010 p = 0.041
Age −0.002 −0.002 −0.003 −0.003
(0.0002) (0.0002) (0.0003) (0.0004)
p < 0.001 p < 0.001 p < 0.001 p = <0.001
Residential 0.018 0.005 0.003 0.003
(0.004) (0.003) (0.004) (0.003)
p = <0.001 p = 0.147 p = 0.522 p = 0.279
Women×Age 0.002 0.002 0.002 0.002
(0.0004) (0.0004) (0.001) (0.001)
p < 0.001 p < 0.001 p < 0.001 p = 0.008
Women×Residential −0.010 −0.002 −0.004 −0.001
(0.001) (0.001) (0.001) (0.002)
p < 0.001 p = 0.074 p = 0.005 p = 0.490
Intercept 0.096 0.090 0.181 0.138
(0.052) (0.044) (0.053) (0.041)
p = 0.067 p = 0.041 p = 0.001 p = 0.001
Observations 587184 356988 577890 127263
Log Likelihood −1098897.000 −581594.400 −1175353.000 −200281.500

The baseline is represented by the average of corresponding months in 2018 and 2019. Models include time in residential areas from Google’s COVID-19 Community Mobility Report (see https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/; accessed on 30 June 2020). Random intercepts included for countries.