‘Invisible Sportswomen’: The Gender Data Gap in Sport and Exercise Science Research, 2014-2020

This dataset includes information regarding participant sex from 6 sport and exercise science journals between the years 2014 and 2020. The dataset includes information on the total number of participants included in each study, the breakdown of participant sex for each article, first author surname, if the article title included the sex of specific cohort (e.g. “Facilitators and barriers to physical activity for teenage girls”), and also captured if the article focuses on a sex-specific health topic, e.g. prostate cancer, pregnancy, menstrual cycle etc. The data also include information on the number reviews and non-human research (e.g. animal or cell studies) conducted in each year for each of the six journals.