Gender-based homophily in research: A large-scale study of man-woman collaboration

Kwiek, Marek; Roszka, Wojciech

doi:10.1016/j.joi.2021.101171

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“…This result supports earlier studies on the adverse influence of gender homophily in scientific activities. Among Polish scientists, gender homophily is found to be negatively associated with the journals' prestige [41]. Campbell also shows that genderhomogeneous teams receive 34% fewer citations than gender-heterogenous teams at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis [52].…”

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“…Since OA is considered an innovative movement, the underlying mechanism between gender diversity and innovation might increase the chance to publish under OA terms. In contrast, gender homophily, known as the tendency to work with colleagues of the same gender, may diminish the likelihood to publish OA, as it does with the published journals' prestige [41].…”

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Open Access Publishing Probabilities Based on Gender and Authorship Structures in Vietnam

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Open access (OA) publishing is beneficial for researchers to improve recognition, representation, and visibility in academia. However, few studies have been conducted for studying the association between gender and OA publishing likelihood. Therefore, the current study explores the impacts of gender-based authorship structures on OA publishing in Vietnamese social sciences and humanities. Bayesian analysis was performed on a dataset of 3122 publications in social sciences and humanities. We found that publications with mixed-gender authorship were most likely to be published under Gold Access terms (26.31–31.65%). In contrast, the likelihood of publications with the solely male or female author(s) was lower. It is also notable that if female researcher(s) held the first-author position in an article of mixed-gender authorship, the publication would be less likely to be published under Gold Access terms (26.31% compared to 31.65% of male-first-author structure). In addition, publications written by a solo female author (14.19%) or a group of female authors (10.72%) had lower OA publishing probabilities than those written by a solely male author(s) (17.14%). These findings hint at the possible advantage of gender diversity and the disadvantage of gender homophily (especially female-only authorship) on OA publishing likelihood. Moreover, they show there might be some negative impacts of gender inequality on OA publishing. As a result, the notion of gender diversity, financial and policy supports are recommended to promote the open science movement.

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Open Access Publishing Probabilities Based on Gender and Authorship Structures in Vietnam

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“…As in our previous research on gender disparities in international research collaboration (Kwiek & Roszka, 2021a) and on gender-based homophily in research or man-woman collaboration patterns (Kwiek & Roszka, 2021b), also here every Polish scientist represented in our integrated database was ascribed to one of 27 ASJC disciplines at the two-digit level (following Abramo, Aksnes, & D'Angelo, 2020). A paper can have one or multiple disciplinary classifications (see the ASJC discipline codes used, as described in Table 3).…”

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“…In practical terms, solo research stems from voluntarily making individual authorship decisions. Individual scientists make consequential authorship decisions about how to follow in their research, and choosing solo publications is one of the options (as is choosing same-sex or mixed-sex collaborators, McDowell et al, 2006; on the gender-based homophily in research, or men collaborating with men and women collaborating with women, see Kwiek & Roszka, 2021b). The authorship decision is important because "it is likely to affect the project's quality, efficiency of execution, and exposure, as well as the amount of credit an author receives following its eventual publication" (Vafeas, 2010: 332).…”

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“…Doctorates are generally required to become part of the academic profession in Poland. There are also five simplifying assumptions (as in Kwiek & Roszka, 2021b), which are as follows: (1) We examine a decade of individual publishing output, although the actual publishing period may be shorter for younger scientists; (2) Scopus-provided journal percentile ranks are deemed stable, although they may fluctuate over the period studied; (3) we assume that scientists did not change institutions in the decade studied; (4) we regard scientists who were assistant, associate, and full professors on the date of reference (November 21, 2017) as keeping these positions for the decade studied, while these positions are the highest ranks achieved in the study period; and (5) for the purpose of international comparability in the results, we refer to three categories of academic positions (assistant, associate, and full professor), although in practice, two Polish academic degrees (doctorate and habilitation) and a Polish academic title (professorship) are used. Thus, academic positions are useful proxies for Polish academic degrees and titles.…”

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Are female scientists less inclined to publish alone? The gender solo research gap

Kwiek

Roszka

2022

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In solo research, scientists compete individually for prestige, sending clear signals about their research ability, avoiding problems in credit allocation, and reducing conflicts about authorship. We examine to what extent male and female scientists differ in their use of solo publishing across various dimensions. This research is the first to comprehensively study the “gender solo research gap” among all internationally visible scientists within a whole national higher education system. We examine the gap through mean “individual solo publishing rates” found in “individual publication portfolios” constructed for each Polish university professor. We use the practical significance/statistical significance difference (based on the effect-size r coefficient) and our analyses indicate that while some gender differences are statistically significant, they have no practical significance. Using a partial effects of fractional logistic regression approach, we estimate the probability of conducting solo research. In none of the models does gender explain the variability of the individual solo publishing rate. The strongest predictor of individual solo publishing rate is the average team size, publishing in STEM fields negatively affects the rate, publishing in male-dominated disciplines positively affects it, and the influence of international collaboration is negative. The gender solo research gap in Poland is much weaker than expected: within a more general trend toward team research and international research, gender differences in solo research are much weaker and less relevant than initially assumed. We use our unique biographical, administrative, publication, and citation database (“Polish Science Observatory”) with metadata on all Polish scientists present in Scopus (N = 25,463) and their 158,743 Scopus-indexed articles published in 2009–2018, including 18,900 solo articles.

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The drivers, features, and influence of first scientific collaboration among core scholars from Chinese library and information field

Peng,

Shi

2024

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Collaboration among scholars in scientific research is increasingly common, making it important to address how to recommend suitable collaborators, especially for their first cooperation. To address this issue, this study focuses on 1487 core scholars in the field of library and information science in China, and then analyzes the impact of academic differences between these scholars in their first collaboration by using the propensity matching score method. It uncovers potential driving factors for scholars to reach first collaborations, including similar research productivity, contrasting academic influence, aligned research directions, and distinct research focuses. Then, the distribution of features of three types of first cooperation demonstrates that if one or both partners publish the first paper in this collaboration, the collaborative relationship tends to be more enduring and stable. In addition, the subsequent collaboration of scholars and the change in their academic differences are related to the initial academic differences between the two parties in the first collaboration. These patterns can be used to improve the accuracy and effectiveness of the scholar recommendation mechanism, hence promoting research collaboration and knowledge exchange.

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Gender-based homophily in research: A large-scale study of man-woman collaboration

Cited by 65 publications

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Open Access Publishing Probabilities Based on Gender and Authorship Structures in Vietnam

Open Access Publishing Probabilities Based on Gender and Authorship Structures in Vietnam

Are female scientists less inclined to publish alone? The gender solo research gap

The drivers, features, and influence of first scientific collaboration among core scholars from Chinese library and information field

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