Evidence is mounting that COVID 19 is decreasing workplace productivity and has increased inequalities in scholarly productivity. In this study we focus on a conference-proceedings journal (Integrative and Comparative Biology) to assess if COVID 19 is reducing research outputs and is disproportionally affecting scholars whose professional and personal lives are more likely to be negatively impacted by the effects of COVID 19. We hypothesized that the number of publications will decrease as some authors are unable to follow through on their prior commitment to submit a manuscript; and that these authors are more likely to come from groups who face increased care-giver responsibilities, increased teaching loads, and are living in geographic areas with higher infection rates and stricter quarantine rules, such as women, instructors at teaching-intensive institutions, and authors living in US states with high infection rates. We predicted that affected groups will submit fewer papers as first or corresponding author, and will experience more publication delays, evident in longer times between symposium presentation and corresponding manuscript going to press. To test our hypotheses, we compared scientific publications from 2019 and 2020. Our preliminary analysis found that our data were largely consistent with our predictions. We found, for example, that the number of submitted manuscripts decreased and that the time between conference presentation and the corresponding manuscript going to press increased.