#gender · Elektrine

petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org

· 25mo ago

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Update. New study: "With roughly the same number of men and women in the world, we should expect this [#gender] gap to close in an equal society. But what we see in reality is a persistent gap in #physics over time."

Summary https://phys.org/news/2024-09-gender-gap-physics-stable-century.html
Primary source with proposed explanation https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-024-01799-z

Why the gender gap in physics has been stable for more than a century

Why the gender gap in physics has been stable for more than a century

As a physicist and data scientist with a keen interest in gender inequality, Fariba Karimi was amazed to discover that the gender gap in physics has remained almost unchanged since 1900. As the citation and coauthorship networks in physics expand, women still make up a small proportion—and the gaps between male and female are getting larger in terms of absolute numbers.

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org

· 24mo ago

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Update. At the Technische Universität Ilmenau, "#gender has a negative influence on the publication frequency but not on the citation rate."

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Bibliometric analysis of gender-specific aspects of publication behavior at Technical University Ilmenau

Various studies show that there are gender-specific differences in the productivity of scientists. In this paper, bibliometric data from the TU Ilmenau between 2012 and 2021 are examined for gender-sp...

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org

· 24mo ago

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Update. In #EasternEurope "the highest percentage of female authored articles was in journals from #Slovenia (mean = 47.28%) and a lowest in journals from #Azerbaijan (mean = 29.30%)." https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10737547 (#paywalled) #gender

Women in Science: Representation in Scientific Publication in Eastern Europe

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Women in Science: Representation in Scientific Publication in Eastern Europe

This study examines the representation of women in scientific publications in Eastern Europe by analyzing data from the SCImago Journal & Country Rank for 14 countries. The research explores the gender gap in research productivity and sheds light on the challenges faced by female researchers in the region. By focusing on the top 500 scientific publications, the study identifies factors influencing female authorship representation, such as subject categories, journal rankings, and country effects

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org

· 23mo ago

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Update. "[The] metric called field-weighted citation impact (#FWCI)…compares citations received by individuals or groups with the average from similar papers in the field. In 2022, male materials scientists based in #India had a 10% higher FWCI than women working in the country. The #gender gap is not so pronounced within other fields."

Why is there a citations gender gap in Indian materials science?

Why is there a citations gender gap in Indian materials science?

Shobhana Narasimhan, chair of the Indian Academy of Science’s initiative on women in science, says attitudes in the field must change more quickly.

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org

· 22mo ago

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Update. The _Emergency Medicine Journal_ commits to reporting #clinicaltrial data broken down by #sex and #gender. https://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2025/01/06/emermed-2024-214743 "Despite…widely reported gender disparities [in medical risks and conditions], we still rarely see the results of clinical trials disaggregated by sex…We must begin now with better data, better approaches to analysis and better reporting…We know that authors don’t always read the not-so-fine print in our guidance, so it will be on us as editors to remind authors to report sex-disaggregated results when possible. We welcome readers to hold us to our word, assuring that this happens."

Sex and gender reporting in scientific papers now strongly recommended by the Emergency Medicine Journal

Sex and gender reporting in scientific papers now strongly recommended by the Emergency Medicine Journal

Editorial linked to: Astin-Chamberlain R, Pott J, Cole E, et al . Sex and gender reporting in UK emergency medicine trials from 2010 to 2023: a systematic review. Emergency Medicine Journal Published Online First: 11 September 2024. doi: 10.1136/emermed-2024-214054. The under-representation of women in clinical trials has been well documented but even less appreciated is the lack of attention to potential differences in outcomes according to sex and gender. Due to differences in body size and c

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org

· 21mo ago

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Update. "The within-discipline differences [of h-index] by #gender are smallest in the humanities and STEM fields and largest in the medical field."

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Inequality in measuring scholarly success: Variation in the h-index within and between disciplines

Scholars and university administrators have a vested interest in building equitable valuation systems of academic work for both practical (e.g., resource distribution) and more lofty purposes (e.g., what constitutes “good” research). Well-established inequalities in science pose a difficult challenge to those interested in constructing a parsimonious and fair method for valuation as stratification occurs within academic disciplines, but also between them. The h-index, a popular research metric,

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org

· 21mo ago

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Update. New study: "Among nearly 35,000 biological scientists who authored their first paper in 2000, women were more likely than men to have stopped publishing after 5, 10 or 20 years. The size of this #gender gap varies between disciplines." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00021-6 (#paywalled)

Who’s quitting academia? Data reveal gender gaps in surprising fields

Who’s quitting academia? Data reveal gender gaps in surprising fields

Even in scientific areas in which women are well represented, they are up to 40% more likely than men to leave research within 20 years.

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org

· 21mo ago

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Update. There are many studies of #gender bias in academic publishing. Having tracked them for years in this Mastodon thread (and an earlier Twitter thread), I agree with this new study that "methodological inconsistencies, particularly in author name disambiguation and gender identification, limit the reliability and comparability of these studies." The authors propose a standardized "framework for documenting and reporting key methodological choices in scholarly data analysis, including author name disambiguation and gender identification procedures." This "will facilitate more accurate comparisons and aggregations of research findings."

Revisiting gender bias research in bibliometrics: Standardizing methodological variability using Scholarly Data Analysis (SoDA) Cards

Gender biases in scholarly metrics remain a persistent concern, despite numerous bibliometric studies exploring their presence and absence across productivity, impact, acknowledgment, and self-citations. However, methodological inconsistencies, particularly in author name disambiguation and gender identification, limit the reliability and comparability of these studies, potentially perpetuating misperceptions and hindering effective interventions. A review of 70 relevant publications over the pa

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org

· 21mo ago

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Update. "Mixed-gender teams are more likely to face #retractions than all-male or all-female teams, while individual authors are less prone to retractions…Male-led publications are often retracted for serious ethical violations, such as data falsification and plagiarism, while female-led publications primarily face procedural errors and updates in rapidly evolving fields. Promoting women to positions of responsibility in mix-collaborations may not only advances gender equity but also the accuracy of the scientific record." https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00353 #Gender #ScholComm

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org

· 20mo ago

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Update. New study: In the social sciences, "male editors-in-chief outnumber females across most fields (66.67%), countries (76.60%), and affiliations (63.16%)." https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0317931 #Gender #ScholComm

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Editors-in-chief in social sciences: Mapping the institutional, geographical, and gender representation between academic fields

This study systematically maps the network structure of the editors-in-chief in social sciences journals, focusing on their gender representation, geographical distribution, and institutional composition. Drawing upon large-scale data from 3,320 JCR-ranked journals of 57 different fields in the social sciences (4,868 editors-in-chief from 1,485 affiliations of 71 countries), the study aims to illustrate the current connections of editorial leadership in social sciences. Findings reveal that two

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org

· 19mo ago

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Update. From a _Nature_ editorial. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00891-w "It’s no secret that women’s participation in research is not reflected in the literature on a par with men’s, and that other #gender identities are all but invisible. The gap is particularly wide in some disciplines, notably the physical sciences…as well as at more-senior levels. But are some fields making more progress than others? If so, what can be learnt from them…? These are some of the questions that reporters and data analysts from Nature Index set out to investigate in their project, Nature Index Author Gender Ratio, launched in 2024. This week, they report some early results."

Track gender ratios in research to keep countries, institutions and publishers accountable

Track gender ratios in research to keep countries, institutions and publishers accountable

Nature Index data reveal how countries and fields differ in gender equity in research.

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org

· 19mo ago

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Update. "Data from the Nature Index reveal the slow erosion of the #gender gap in global research publishing over the past decade. But with just 27% of high-quality papers in the natural sciences having female co-authors in 2024, there is a lot of room for improvement. In the health sciences — where women have a stronger presence — that figure sits at 41%."

Gender gap in research publishing is improving — slowly

Gender gap in research publishing is improving — slowly

A Nature Index data set shows which countries, institutions and topic areas are making the greatest progress towards gender equity in research.

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org

· 19mo ago

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Update. In the fields of #NLP and #LIS, "papers with different #gender compositions achieve varying numbers of citations, with mixed-gender collaborations gradually obtaining higher average citation counts compared to same-gender collaborations."

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org

· 18mo ago

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Update. For research in #Brazil "indexing biases disproportionately affect researchers focusing on locally relevant topics through articles that are written in Portuguese. Given women's overrepresentation in this group, our findings illustrate how indexing biases contribute to gender inequalities in science." https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391183750_Occluded_Topics_The_hidden_half_of_Brazilian_research #Gender #GenderBias #Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org

· 17mo ago

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Update. "Since 2017, the #UK has mandated organisations employing more than 250 people to publicly report their annual #gender #PayGap…Every science publisher pays men more than women. In 2024, the lowest median pay gap favouring men was 9.5% (#SpringerNature), followed by #Sage (13.3%), #Wiley (17.7%), and #Informa (formerly Taylor & Francis) (22.7%). #Elsevier remains an outlier in the magnitude of its gender pay gap and in the lack of progress. Eight years ago Elsevier stood out among publishers, with a median pay gap in 2017 of 40.4% in favour of men over women in its UK business…Elsevier’s median pay gap for 2024 is 32.8%, maintaining its position as worst performer among peers over all eight years of mandatory reporting." https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004673 #Publishers #ScholComm

Gender pay gaps and inequity at science publishers

Gender pay gaps and inequity at science publishers

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org

· 14mo ago

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New study: "More women-led papers receive at least one media mention in women-underrepresented fields, but they are cited less frequently across all fields. Women authors are underrepresented in national outlets and are more often reported by liberal media. Sentiment analysis shows that men-led papers are more often associated with positive sentiment in news text, while women-led papers elicit more negative sentiment." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10755470251360187 #Gender #GenderBias #ScholComm

Equity in Science Journalism: Investigating Gender Disparities in News Media Coverage of Scientific Research - Salsabil Arabi, Xiang Zheng, B. Ian Hutchins, Chaoqun Ni, 2025

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Equity in Science Journalism: Investigating Gender Disparities in News Media Coverage of Scientific Research - Salsabil Arabi, Xiang Zheng, B. Ian Hutchins, Chaoqun Ni, 2025

Media coverage shapes public perception of science, yet gender bias can compromise its objectivity. Based on 1 million papers with 1.2 million media citations, ...

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org

· 11mo ago

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Update. "Women are significantly underrepresented among highly cited scholars globally (0.255 women per man) and receive fewer citations and have lower h-indexes than men in most regions and disciplines. However, after controlling for productivity and career length, female scholars are cited more than men in the pooled sample, Asia, Europe, and in two fields (natural sciences and exact sciences/physics). Despite this, women’s h-index remains significantly lower than men’s in all regions except Africa and South America, and in all fields except social sciences." https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0334690 #Gender #GenderBias #ScholComm

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Gender gap in citations, h-index, and representation: Examining the highly cited authors across continents and disciplines in Google Scholar

This study investigates gender inequalities in academia by examining differences in representation, citations, and h-index between male and female highly cited researchers across disciplines and geographic regions. Using a unique dataset from Google Scholar, this study analyzes 21,509 highly cited authors across 191 fields and all continents. We examine gender disparities in citations, h-index, and representation while controlling for research productivity and career length to determine if femal

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org

· 10mo ago

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Update. "Authors with very feminine and masculine first names respectively get a lower and higher share of citations for every article published, irrespective of their contribution role." https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08219 #Gender #GenderBias #ScholComm

Any Old Tom, Dick or Harry: The Citation Impact of First Name Genderedness

This paper examines the relationship between the genderedness of authors' first names and citation distributions in US-affiliated scholarly production from 2010 to 2019. Merging a first name genderedness table derived from Wikidata with Web of Science publication data, we develop a relative distributional framework that compares name, article, and citation distributions along a continuous genderedness spectrum. The lexical structure of the corpus proves stable across author roles, while producti

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org

· 10mo ago

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Update. "In male-dominated fields, women have significantly broader research interests than men, while this gap diminishes and reverses in more gender-balanced fields. Although broader publication trajectories help women increase publication output, this strategy carries steeper citation penalties for women than for men. The results suggest that academic fields act as sites of inequality production, channeling women toward research patterns that boost immediate productivity while undermining long-term scholarly influence." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/23780231251396273 #Gender #GenderBias #ScholComm

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org

· 10mo ago

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Update. In the field of oil pollution research, "female authors accounted for about 32% of the total authors…were significantly underrepresented in most of the African countries [and in] the UK and Norway…Gender variation in oil pollution publications was discovered to be influenced by religion in Africa; Islam had the mean highest rank when compared with Christianity." https://doi.org/10.4314/jasem.v29i11.22 #Gender #GenderBias #ScholComm

The Variation in Authorship between Male and Female Researchers in Oil Pollution Publications in Ten (10) Countries | Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management

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