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    Scientific journals place less trust in women researchers: An analysis of more than 36 million articles written by women shows that the gender gap in research is also reflected in specialized journals
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    Scientific journals place less trust in women researchers: An analysis of more than 36 million articles written by women shows that the gender gap in research is also reflected in specialized journals


    Scientific journals place less trust in women researchers: An analysis of more than 36 million articles written by women shows that the gender gap in research is also reflected in specialized journals

    https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2026-02-11/scientific-journals-place-less-trust-in-women-researchers.html

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    1. ARunOfTheMillPerson on

      I’d be curious to see the breakdown of each domain being written about. There’s some categories like neuroscience where I pretty much leave my skepticism at the door without even thinking about it.

      I would wager that the more complex a research topic is, the less likely it is to be criticized.

    2. Ebola_Cat on

      I can’t convince my boss cyanuric acid works in the damn pool. I’d imagine it’s that same thing with scientific journals. 

    3. TheForeverBand_89 on

      Don’t know exactly who’s digging this deeply into peer-reviewed articles, but I can confidently say that I have never cared, or really even known, what the gender of any papers’ authors were. What matters is the substance of the publication.

    4. omegaphallic on

       This smells like proganda to me, I’m very skeptical of this given the social pressure is to publish more women not less.

    5. veilosa on

      > The authors clarified that they were unable to determine how much of the delay is due to the journals themselves and how much is due **to the time authors take to respond to revisions.**

      frankly, it sounds like the thing they admit to not know might be the most significant factor.