The impact of COVID-19 on the gender distribution of emergency medicine journal authors

[...]we selected only the top two journals in EM. Future research should assess the delayed impact of COVID-19 on publications and academic promotion.Source of support None.Presentations All authors report no prior presentations.Acknowledgements The authors wish to thank Dr. Teresa Chan for her guidance and advice on this manuscript, as well as the Diversity Inclusion Research and Education Collaboration Team (DIRECT). Pre-COVID-19 Authors (%) Peri-COVID-19 Authors (%) Chi-squared comparing Pre-COVID-19 to Peri-COVID-19 First Author X22 = 1.2 Female 172 (30.2%) 183 (30.9%) Male 373 (65.6%) 392 (66.1%) Unknown 24 (4.2%) 18 (3.0%) Last Author⁎ X22 = 2.5 Female 113 (22.6%) 118 (22.8%) Male 364 (72.7%) 385 (74.3%) Unknown 24 (4.8%) 15 (2.9%) Total Authors X22 = 4 Female 891 (32.1%) 1044 (34.2%) Male 1765 (63.6%) 1903 (62.3%) Unknown 117 (4.2%) 108 (3.5%) Table 1 Gender Distribution of all authors in Annals of Emergency Medicine and Academic Emergency Medicine comparing pre-COVID-19 (March 2019 to February 2020) and peri-COVID-19 (March 2020 to February 2021).