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Impact of COVID-19 on Scholarly Outcomes of Pharmacy Practice Faculty by Gender and Academic Rank

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To determine how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the scholarly outcomes of pharmacy practice faculty and whether the impact varied by gender and academic rank. METHODS: Pharmacy practice faculty from the top 50 National Institutes of Health-funded schools of pharmacy (2018-2021) were included. Faculty whose gender was indeterminable with Gender API or who had no Scopus record were excluded. Publications before and during the pandemic (2018-2019 and 2020-2021, respectively) were obtained from Scopus. Primary outcomes included scholarly activity (probability of publishing) and scholarly output (number of documents published). The secondary outcomes were fractional scholarly output and collaboration coefficient. Data were analyzed using generalized linear mixed-effects models, with fixed effects including pandemic, rank, and gender. Interaction effects were only included in final models if statistically significant. RESULTS: Faculty included were 1081 (61.2% women: 31.4%, 40.0%, and 28.7% assistant, associate, and professors, respectively). Unique documents published increased from 2428 to 2737 during the pandemic. There was a significant pandemic-rank interaction in scholarly activity, whereas scholarly output had both pandemic-rank and pandemic-gender interactions. Men had higher scholarly output vs women across all ranks, in both periods. During the pandemic, scholarly output increased among all assistants and associates, but among professors, men had no change, whereas women had a decrease. CONCLUSION: The pandemic effect on pharmacy practice faculty scholarly outcomes varied across gender and academic ranks. Institutions should implement initiatives to mitigate the extant gender gap in scholarly output that persisted during the pandemic, as it may impact career progression, tenure prospects, and retention.

Source: American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education

DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpe.2025.101398

Authors: Samuel O. Adeosun, Ayonna M. Hollowell, Olalekan Soremekun

Institution: High Point University

Language: English

Topic: scientometrics and bibliometrics research

Subfield: Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,400