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Early in the pandemic (April 2020) I started what became a long #Twitter thread on #gender bias in academic #publishing. Starting today, I'm stopping it on Twitter and continuing it on #Mastodon. Here's a rollup of the Twitter thread. Watch this space for updates. 3 comments
Update. "We evaluated how the #gender composition of top-cited authors within different subfields of research has evolved over time…Men outnumbered women 1.88-fold among all authors, decreasing from 3.93-fold to 1.36-fold over time. Men outnumbered women 3.21-fold among top-cited authors, decreasing from 6.41-fold to 2.28-fold over time." Imbalances varied greatly by discipline. Update. "We find that sex differences in the number of publications, citations, and citations per publication were small across low and medium levels of productivity, but become more pronounced the higher the level of performance. In the top performing 10% the female proportion decreases from the average 43.2% to 26%." |
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Update. In political science, "journal articles authored exclusively by female scholars score 27% lower on average [on Altmetric Attention Scores, AAS] than exclusively male-authored outputs. However, men are also more likely to write articles with an AAS of zero. These patterns are shaped by the presence of high-scoring male 'superstars' whose research attracts much online attention."
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41304-023-00431-y
#Altmetrics #Gender #PoliticalScience
Update. In political science, "journal articles authored exclusively by female scholars score 27% lower on average [on Altmetric Attention Scores, AAS] than exclusively male-authored outputs. However, men are also more likely to write articles with an AAS of zero. These patterns are shaped by the presence of high-scoring male 'superstars' whose research attracts much online attention."
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41304-023-00431-y