Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review

Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that female-authored articles spend longer under review than comparable male-authored articles, across most fields.

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Article title: Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review

Author countries: United States

Funding: This work was partially funded by a Data Analytics grant (to D.A.P.) funded by the “Harnessing the Data Revolution for Fire Science” project (https://hdrfs.epscorspo.nevada.edu), which is funded by grant OIA-2148788 from the National Science Foundation (https://www.nsf.gov). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.