(Press-News.org) 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.
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Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review
2026-01-20
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