1 Impact of the first COVID-19 lockdown on scientific productivity and workload in Denmark: a gender analysis Claire Francesca Meehan 1,2* , Ea Høg Utoft 1,3*, Christine Parsons 1,4* , Vanessa Jane Hall 1,5 , Mette Bendixen 1,6 , Ida Vogel 1,7 , Katherine Patrice Gill 1 , Emma Louise Louth 1,8 + *Contributed equally + Corresponding author Affiliations: 1. The Danish Association for Women in Science (DANWISE), Denmark 2. Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 3. Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark 4. Interacting Minds Center, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark 5. Group of Brain Development and Disease, Section Pathobiological Sciences, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 6. Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 7. Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark 8. Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience (DANDRITE), Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus University, Denmark Running title: COVID-19 on science workload in Denmark Acknowledgements: We would like to sincerely thank the entire DANWISE team for all of their hard work and contributions to our organization. This manuscript represents one of the many projects that we work on together as a team and could not be achieved without every member. We are also indebted to Johanne Victoria Nedergaard Jensen from the Copenhagen University “Uniavisen” and Maria Mortensen for their assistance in advertising the online survey.