Gender differences in research productivity among criminal justice and criminology scholars

Snell, Clete; Sorensen, Jon R.; Rodriguez, John; Kuanliang, Attapol

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2009.04.009

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“…However, given that our top three mosthighly cited dendrochronologists were all male, dendrochronology may be prone to the same pattern seen in other disciplines where the ''star scientists,'' those with the highest productivity and recognition, are all or mostly male (Abramo et al 2009). In criminal justice, lower productivity for female researchers has been ascribed to higher levels of service and teaching and shorter career spans (Snell et al 2009). Although many dendrochronologists in traditional academic positions incorporate tree-ring projects in geography, biology, or forestry classes, dendrochronology is not a part of a normal undergraduate curriculum (Lafon 2005).…”

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Lack of Gender Bias in Citation Rates of Publications by Dendrochronologists: What is Unique about this Discipline?

2010

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Most academic disciplines have a gender bias that exists in the recognition of research publications: women's publications are cited at lower rates than men's publications. In this paper, we examined whether a similar gender bias existed for publications by dendrochronologists. Tree-ring research is a fairly small field where males outnumber females, and therefore the sample size was limited to 20 female dendrochronologists and 20 male dendrochronologists. It was determined that native language (English or non-native English speaker), current employment (government or academic), and gender of the first-author do not significantly influence a paper's probability of being cited. However, years since dissertation completion was a good predictor of a paper's citation rate. We suggest that the high productivity of female dendrochronologists and a pattern of co-authoring with male colleagues bring the work of females to the attention of their male colleagues and thus eliminate the gender bias in citation of women's work common to other disciplines.

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Lack of Gender Bias in Citation Rates of Publications by Dendrochronologists: What is Unique about this Discipline?

2010

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“…Factors surrounding family formation and childrearing have been one of the major causes of female underrepresentation in academia evidenced by the literature (Sax et al 2002;Stack 2004;Fox 2005;Ginther and Kahn 2006;Prozesky 2008;Hunter and Leahey 2010). Another large body of literature has focused on structural factors such as the greater presence of women in less research-oriented institutions (Allison and Long 1990;Xie and Shauman 1998), the higher teaching and service load among females (Taylor et al 2006;Snell et al 2009;DesRoches et al 2010), their lower degree of specialization (Leahey 2006) and of academic status and rank (Leta and Lewison 2003;Tower et al 2007;Puuska 2010;Pashkova et al 2013), their difficulties in accessing funding (Xie and Shauman 1998), the low percentage of women on selection committees (European Commission 2009;Zinovyeva and Bagues 2011), or the academic assessment systems that have traditionally ignored factors that especially affect women (LERU 2012). From a psychological perspective, gender differences have been explained by women's lower levels of career orientation, ambition, and aggressiveness (Sonnert 1996).…”

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confidence: 99%

Research on women in science and higher education: a bibliometric analysis

2015

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The main objective of this paper is to study the development and growth of scientific literature on women in science and higher education. A total of 1415 articles and reviews published between 1991 and 2012 were extracted from the Thomson Reuters Web of Science database. Standard bibliometric indicators and laws (e.g. Price's, Lotka's, and Bradford's laws) were applied to these data. In addition, the Gender Inequality Index (GII) was obtained for each country in order to rank them. The results suggest an upward trend not only in the number of papers but also in the number of authors per paper. However, this increase in the number of authors was not accompanied by greater international collaboration. The interest in gender differences in science extends too many authors (n = 3064), countries (n = 67), and research areas (n = 86). Data showed a high dispersion of the literature and a small set of core journals focused on the topic. Regarding the research areas, the area with the highest frequency of papers was Education and Educational Research. Finally, our results showed that countries with higher levels of inequality (higher GII values) tend to present higher relative values of scientific productivity in the field.

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“…Specifically, the findings illustrate that we as a discipline have not yet reached parity for race and gender (Gabbidon, Greene, & Wilder, 2004;Potter, Higgins, & Gabbidon, 2011;Snell, Sorenson, Rodriguez, & Kuanliang, 2009). Despite the increased presence of women and racial minorities in the field, our findings show that these groups are still underrepresented among the top scholars,…”

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Criminology and Criminal Justice Hit Parade: Measuring Academic Productivity in the Discipline

Copes¹,

Khey²,

Tewksbury³

2012

Journal of Criminal Justice Education

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Gender differences in research productivity among criminal justice and criminology scholars

Cited by 39 publications

References 33 publications

Lack of Gender Bias in Citation Rates of Publications by Dendrochronologists: What is Unique about this Discipline?

Lack of Gender Bias in Citation Rates of Publications by Dendrochronologists: What is Unique about this Discipline?

Research on women in science and higher education: a bibliometric analysis

Criminology and Criminal Justice Hit Parade: Measuring Academic Productivity in the Discipline

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