Supplementary data: Gender Parity among the Altmetric Top 100 Publications on COVID-19

<b>Supplementary Table 1</b>. Gender
Parity among the Altmetric Top 100 Publications on COVID-19
The
current enormous gender disparity in the sciences has drawn considerable
attention and sparked widespread debate. Working together, researchers, women
scientists who have been discriminated against in scientific recognition and
promotions, and supportive journalists and legislators are addressing the
question, “where are women in the sciences?” by documenting inequities and
exploring root causes. To probe the effectiveness of such efforts in
addressing the gender discrepancy, in this paper I analyzed the top 100
Altmetric COVID-19 publications to determine differences between first/last
authored male and female papers. The outcomes were striking: the efforts in
increasing awareness of the current scientific gender discrepancy among some
stakeholders (e.g., researchers, bloggers and journalists) were initially
effective, as there were no significant gender discrepancy in Altmetrics
scores, news coverage, discussions on blogs and social media coverage.