How pandemic publishing struck a blow to the visibility of women’s expertise

The biases in scientific publishing during the pandemic damaged women's visibility, recognition, and career advancement, reports Jocalyn Clark Jocalyn Clark international editorBefore covid-19, Reshma Jagsi had a thriving clinical and research career.As a full time physician and deputy department chair of radiation oncology at the University of Michigan, USA, she was ascending the leadership ladder before the world around her went into lockdown."Everything was an emergency, and all my colleagues were working around the clock out of a sense of need, because the house was on fire," she says.It felt as though "I was drowning.