Overemphasis on publications may disadvantage historically excluded groups in STEM before and during COVID-19: A North American survey-based study

• Freya E. Rowland ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Freya E. Rowland, Kyra A. Prats

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: frowland@usgs.gov

  Current address: U.S. Geological Survey, Columbia Environmental Research Center, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

  Affiliation School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1041-5301

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• Kyra A. Prats ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Freya E. Rowland, Kyra A. Prats

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America

  Affiliation School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8323-5272

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• Yara A. Alshwairikh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Mary K. Burak,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Ana Clara Fanton,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Villenave d’Ornon, France

  Affiliation School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Marlyse C. Duguid

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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