Gender-specific patterns in patenting and publishing

Frietsch, Rainer; Haller, Inna; Funken-Vrohlings, Melanie; Grupp, Hariolf

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2009.01.019

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“…What is unique about dendrochronology that makes gender immaterial for citation rate? One possible reason is that female dendrochronologists are highly productive researchers, something that is not found in other disciplines where women's publication productivity lags behind men's (Wilson et al 1999;Dorsey et al 2006;Frietsch et al 2009). Among dendrochronologists, there was no significant difference (t 5 21.31, p 5 0.20) in the average number of first-authored papers published by men (average 12 papers) vs. women (average 9 papers).…”

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“…This removes the isolation of sole-authorship experienced by women in some disciplines and may also contribute to the lack of gender bias in citation rates. Another contributing factor to the lack of gender bias could be that female scientists place a greater emphasis on publications rather than on other research outputs, such as patents, which results in higher quality of articles produced by women (Winkler 2000;Frietsch et al 2009). Although women often comprise a smaller proportion of researchers, their publications appear in significantly higher-ranked journals as compared to their male counterparts (Housri et al 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

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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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Section: Resultsmentioning

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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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“…Since there are substantial differences across countries in terms of interface activities (e.g. Frietsch et al, 2009;Krücken, 2007), national characteristics of the Finnish society most probably have an impact on the results obtained. Finland is one of the Scandinavian welfare states and a member of the European Union, following a strong gender mainstreaming policy.…”

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“…Lindberg, 2009) and commercialization of science (e.g. Frietsch et al, 2009;Rosa, Dawson, 2006;Whittington, Smith-Doerr, 2005) provide knowledge on particular parts of the interface field, too little is known on gendered practices of interface organisations and science parks in particular. It has been suggested that --differently from academia, which has remained male-dominated --interface organizations offer more favourable conditions for women experts (Ranga et al, 2008).…”

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Gender Equality in Interface Organizations between Science, Technology and Innovation

Vehviläinen

Vuolanto

Ylijoki

2010

Journal of Technology Management & Innovation

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The article addresses the question of gender equality in the context of interface organizations between science, technology and innovation, focusing on gendered work practices in science parks. Drawing upon the notions of gendered work practices, feminization of work and feminist science and technology studies, the article explores: 1. Key aspects of work practices in science parks; 2. Gender segregation embedded in these practices; and 3. Practices which help to promote gender equality in intermediary work. The study is empirically based on interviews with top managers and female experts of four Finnish science parks, complemented by one focus group interview with representatives of funding agencies, ministries and intermediary organizations. The study demonstrates that work in science parks is simultaneously future-oriented knowledge work and service work characterized by features of feminization and care (i.e. sensitivity to the needs of clients). Gender segregation commonly seen in the science, technology and innovation sector is reproduced in novel ways in the work practices of the science parks, especially due to the gendered patterns of professional recognition and male networking. This implies that -in spite of the feminised work practices -women do not find easy careers in science parks. The data show, however, that there are also several practices which are used to counteract segregation and promote gender equality, including a number of positive actions developed by women themselves in order to promote recognition and networking in science parks.

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“…This author also finds that Spain is one of the countries with a higher percentage of women inventors. In the same vein (Frietsch et al, 2009), compare 14 countries, concluding that in all of them the presence of women in patent applications is rising but it is still lower than men. They highlight that Spain is a country with a higher involvement of females in patenting.…”

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The Effects of Gender on the Quality of University Patents and Public Research Centres in Andalusia: is it Better with a Female Presence?

Muñoz¹,

Graña²

2016

Economics &Amp; Sociology

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ABSTRACT. Much work has been done about the quality of patents as a tool to improve economic growth. However, investigations concerning the analysis of women's participation in technological research are very limited. The aim of this article is to determine if female participation in a specific invention influences the quality of the patent. The research is based on the analysis, of the information which shows 498 patent applications and 1838 inventors from Universities and Public Research Centres in Andalusia (Spain), between 1990 and 2006. The main conclusion is the fact that the quality of the patent is higher when the inventor team includes both, male and female presence. According to the results obtained in this work, we argue that it is therefore necessary to implement policies to promote greater contribution by women and the resultant implication in the fields of science and technology.

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Gender-specific patterns in patenting and publishing

Cited by 127 publications

References 23 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?

Gender Equality in Interface Organizations between Science, Technology and Innovation

The Effects of Gender on the Quality of University Patents and Public Research Centres in Andalusia: is it Better with a Female Presence?

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