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Table 2.

Association of author sex and COVID-19 era with provisional acceptance

Cohort	Date Range	Exposure Variables^*	First Author Sex Analysis		Senior Author Sex Analysis
Cohort	Date Range	Exposure Variables^*	OR (95% CI)	P Value	OR (95% CI)	P Value
Non–COVID-19 manuscripts^†	1/1/18–12/31/20	Author female	0.91 (0.78–1.06)	0.23	0.84 (0.71–0.99)	0.039
Non–COVID-19 manuscripts^‡	Pre-COVID-19 era (1/1/18–3/10/20) vs. COVID-19 era (3/11/20–12/31/20)	Author female	0.90 (0.76–1.07)	0.24	0.84 (0.70–1.01)	0.07
		COVID-19 era	0.46 (0.36–0.59)	<0.001	0.46 (0.37–0.57)	<0.001
		Author female × COVID-19 era	0.93 (0.63–1.38)	0.73	0.97 (0.63–1.49)	0.89
COVID-19 manuscripts^§	3/11/20–12/31/20	Author female	0.91 (0.36–2.33)	0.85	1.39 (0.53–3.61)	0.50

Definition of abbreviations: CI = confidence interval; COVID-19 = coronavirus disease; OR = odds ratio.

Models also adjusted for world region of author and journal.

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For first author sex analysis, Hosmer-Lemeshow testing for goodness of fit P = 0.23 and area under receiver operating characteristic curve = 0.71; for senior author sex analysis, Hosmer-Lemeshow testing for goodness of fit P = 0.09 and area under receiver operating characteristic curve = 0.71.

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For first author sex analysis, Hosmer-Lemeshow testing for goodness of fit P = 0.044 and area under receiver operating characteristic curve = 0.72; for senior author sex analysis, Hosmer-Lemeshow testing for goodness of fit P = 0.08 and area under receiver operating characteristic curve = 0.73.

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For first author sex analysis, Hosmer-Lemeshow testing for goodness of fit P = 0.71 and area under receiver operating characteristic curve = 0.83; for senior author sex analysis, Hosmer-Lemeshow testing for goodness of fit P = 0.28 and area under receiver operating characteristic curve = 0.83.