Editing Open access (section)

=== Gender inequality ===
Gender inequality favoring men can be found in many disciplines, including political science, economics and neurology, and critical care research.<ref name=":18" /> For instance, in critical care research, 30.8% of the 18,483 research articles published between 2008 and 2018 were led by female authors and were more likely to be published in lower-impact journals than those led by male authors.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Vranas |first1=Kelly C. |last2=Ouyang |first2=David |last3=Lin |first3=Amber L. |last4=Slatore |first4=Christopher G. |last5=Sullivan |first5=Donald R. |last6=Kerlin |first6=Meeta Prasad |last7=Liu |first7=Kathleen D. |last8=Baron |first8=Rebecca M. |last9=Calfee |first9=Carolyn S. |last10=Ware |first10=Lorraine B. |last11=Halpern |first11=Scott D. |last12=Matthay |first12=Michael A. |last13=Herridge |first13=Margaret S. |last14=Mehta |first14=Sangeeta |last15=Rogers |first15=Angela J. |date=2020-04-01 |title=Gender Differences in Authorship of Critical Care Literature |journal=American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine |volume=201 |issue=7 |pages=840–847 |doi=10.1164/rccm.201910-1957OC |issn=1073-449X |pmc=7124723 |pmid=31968182}}</ref> Open access publishing may improve the visibility of female researchers both inside and outside academia, but without deliberate support of female researchers, open access publishing may exacerbate gender inequality.<ref name=":18">{{cite journal |author1=Gemma Derrick |author2= Alesia Ann Zuccala  |author3= Georgiana Turculet |title=Open Access Publishing Probabilities Based on Gender and Authorship Structures in Vietnam |date=5 October 2021 |volume=9 |doi=10.3390/publications9040045 |journal=Publications|issue= 4 |page= 45 |doi-access= free }}</ref>