Gender Disparity in Law Review Citation Rates

Cotropia, Christopher Anthony; Petherbridge, Lee

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2469628

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“…(Copenheaver, Goldbeck, & Cherubini, 2010); economics, political science, and sociology (nine journals 1983-2003; with and without regression) (Lynn, Noonan, et al, 2019); peace research (one journal 1983-2008; regression) (Østby, Strand, et al, 2013). • Papers authored by women cited more: management in Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, the USA, and the UK, but nonsignificant for 14 other countries (46,549 Web of Science articles 2007-2013; regression) (Nielsen, 2017); law reviews (1980-1995 in HeinOnline; regression) (Ayres & Vars, 2000) and later confirmed (1990-2010 from the US-based HeinOnline; regression) (Cotropia & Petherbridge, 2017); Canadian political science ( Web of Science articles 1985-2005; regression) (Montpetit, Blais, & Foucault, 2008).…”

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Gender differences in citation impact for 27 fields and six English-speaking countries 1996–2014

Thelwall

2020

Quantitative Science Studies

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Initiatives addressing the lack of women in many academic fields, and the general lack of senior women, need to be informed about the causes of any gender differences that may affect career progression, including citation impact. Previous research about gender differences in journal article citation impact has found the direction of any difference to vary by country and field, but has usually avoided discussions of the magnitude and wider significance of any differences and has not been systematic in terms of fields and/or time. This study investigates differences in citation impact between male and female first-authored research for 27 broad fields and six large English-speaking countries (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK, and the USA) from 1996 to 2014. The results show an overall female first author citation advantage, although in most broad fields it is reversed in all countries for some years. International differences include Medicine having a female first author citation advantage for all years in Australia, but a male citation advantage for most years in Canada. There was no general trend for the gender difference to increase or decrease over time. The average effect size is small, however, and unlikely to have a substantial influence on overall gender differences in researcher careers.

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Gender differences in citation impact for 27 fields and six English-speaking countries 1996–2014

Thelwall

2020

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“…In an investigation of research productivity within Australian law schools, Smyth (2012) found that there were only a few female academics among the most prolific publishers in top Australian law journals. Women also publish less in elite US law reviews compared to men and are less likely to coauthor (Kotkin 2010;Cotropia and Petherbridge 2017). However, these findings should be interpreted with some caution.…”

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confidence: 79%

“…Studies show that female legal academics are appointed at a lower level than male legal academics and obtain tenure at a slower rate than men (Fossum 1980;Zenoff and Lorio 1983;Rosenfield and Jones 1987;Merritt, Reskin, and Fondell 1993;Merritt 1995;Merritt and Reskin 1997;Gaber 1998;Angel 2000;Neumann The Academic Gender Gap in Australian Law Schools 611 2000; Durako 2000Durako , 2004McBrier 2003;Stanchi 2004) even if they hold comparable qualifications Reskin 1992, 1997). Women are less likely to hold an appointment in an elite law school (Chused 1988;Farley 1996), they publish less (Kotkin 2010;Cotropia and Petherbridge 2017), and they receive lower salaries (Seibel 1996). Relative to their male counterparts, female legal academics have lower levels of job satisfaction, perceive tenure decisions as unfair (Barnes and Mertz 2018), and have higher levels of attrition (Merritt 2000).…”

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Persistence Despite Change: The Academic Gender Gap in Australian Law Schools

Melville

Barrow

2021

Law Soc. Inq.

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Prior research has shown that while women have entered the legal profession in increasing numbers, the profession continues to privilege the norms, beliefs, and cultural practices of men. However, one aspect of the legal profession that has largely been overlooked, especially in Australia, is legal academia. This oversight is significant as legal academia provides the gateway into the legal profession. Women now make up approximately half of universities’ academic staff, are increasingly completing doctorate qualifications, and are moving into senior positions within academia. On the surface, these changes may suggest that women are now fully integrated into academia and that the academic gender gap has now resolved. We argue, however, that numerical inclusion does not necessarily challenge the male normative structures that underlie legal academia. This article draws on analysis of the biographies of seven hundred legal academics in Australian law schools and investigates differences between male and female legal academics in terms of level of appointment, academic qualifications and professional experience, research productivity, research interests, and mobility. It shows that while the gender gap has closed in some areas, the feminization of legal academia is a myth and female academics continue to face gendered barriers.

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“…Males are usually cited more often than female scholars in many disciplines, although studies vary for law (Cotropia & Petherbridge, 2018;King, Bergstrom, Correll, Jacquet, & West, 2017;Lawprofblawg & Bush, 2018). People of color and other minorities are often cited less than white scholars (Delgado, 1984;Lawprofblawg & Bush, 2018;Ray, 2018).…”

Section: Potentially Perpetuating Bias Against Women and Minority Facmentioning

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Using Law School Faculty Author Profiles to Promote Impact: The U.S. News & World Report Saga Continues

Symulevich

2020

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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INTRODUCTION: When U.S. News & World Report announced that it would rank law schools’ scholarly impact, U.S. News asked law schools to work with HeinOnline, a legal database, to ensure the accuracy of the database-created faculty author profiles because they would be using Hein’s database to gather citation metrics to measure scholarly impact. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM: This practice article describes a project at UNC Chapel Hill in the law library to ensure that their faculty publications were included in HeinOnline’s database and that HeinOnline Author Profiles were accurate. This case study helps librarians tackling either similar law library projects or similar projects throughout academia as metrics gathering for scholarly impact in a variety of manners, including educational rankings, becomes more prevalent. NEXT STEPS: Following this project, Hein contacted UNC to inform the law library they had identified an additional 119 articles for faculty members not previously attached to UNC faculty Hein Author Profiles. Some implications from this project are unclear and changing methodology, scalability issues, authority control concerns, lack of capturing interdisciplinary works, and an increased workload for librarians. Librarians, especially Scholarly Communications Librarians, are well equipped to promote our faculty’s scholarship by understanding the methodology of these educational ranking systems and by connecting our faculty and their research to the database tools of our field. This article represents just one field, but the implications apply more broadly.

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Gender Disparity in Law Review Citation Rates

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Gender differences in citation impact for 27 fields and six English-speaking countries 1996–2014

Gender differences in citation impact for 27 fields and six English-speaking countries 1996–2014

Persistence Despite Change: The Academic Gender Gap in Australian Law Schools

Using Law School Faculty Author Profiles to Promote Impact: The U.S. News & World Report Saga Continues

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