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Among LGBTQA scientists, those who don't disclose their identities at work author fewer peer-reviewed publications than their disclosing peers - indicating a possible productivity cost to non-disclosure

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Predicted relationship between publication count and time since first publication for different LGBTQA identity/disclosure categories

image: Predicted relationship between publication count and time since first publication for different LGBTQA identity/disclosure categories. view more 

Credit: Nelson et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Among LGBTQA scientists, those who don't disclose their identities at work author fewer peer-reviewed publications than their disclosing peers - indicating a possible productivity cost to non-disclosure

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0263728  

Article title: Nondisclosure of queer identities is associated with reduced scholarly publication rates

Author countries: U.S.A.

Funding: JBY was supported by startup funding from California State University Northridge and a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (DEB, 2001108). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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