MMDr Martha McClintock — no licensed photograph is available, so the academic plate is shown instead.

Academic

Dr Martha McClintock

Researcher who published the first scientific paper on menstrual synchrony

Press citations

1

Topic

1

Women's health & gynaecology

Last quoted

Sept 2026

Dr Martha McClintock: key facts

Kind of voice
Academic
Role
Researcher who published the first scientific paper on menstrual synchrony
Quoted on
Women's health & gynaecology
Tracked press citations
1
Most recently quoted
29 Sept 2026

“In the early 1970s, Dr Martha McClintock published the first scientific paper on menstrual synchrony. In it, she observed students living in a college dorm, and determined that women who live in close proximity or share a common environment experience a convergence of their menstrual cycles.”

Where Dr Martha McClintock has been quoted

  1. Do women’s periods actually sync up with each other?theguardian.com · 29 Sept 2026

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