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