How does research productivity relate to gender? Analyzing gender differences for multiple publication dimensions

Mayer, Sabrina Jasmin; Rathmann, Justus M. K.

doi:10.1007/s11192-018-2933-1

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“…In particular, female researchers on average are less productive and publish fewer publications than male researchers. This has been demonstrated in numerous studies (for example, Kyvik and Teigen 1996;Piro et al 2013;Larivière et al 2013;Mayer and Rathmann 2018). The pattern seems to be universal across fields and nations, although the differences vary.…”

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Gender gaps in international research collaboration: a bibliometric approach

2019

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This paper addresses gender differences in international research collaboration measured through international co-authorship. The study is based on a dataset consisting of 5600 Norwegian researchers and their publication output during a 3-year period (44,000 publications). Two different indicators are calculated. First, the share of researchers that have been involved in international collaboration as measured by co-authorship, and second, the share of their publications with international co-authorship. The study shows that the field of research is by far the most important factor influencing the propensity to collaborate internationally. There are large differences from humanities on the one hand, where international collaboration in terms of co-authorship is less common, to the natural sciences on the other, where such collaboration is very frequent. On an overall level, we find distinct gender differences in international research collaboration in Norway in the favour of men. However, men and women are not equally distributed across fields and there are relatively more female researchers in fields where the international collaboration rates generally are lower. When the data are analysed by scientific field, academic position, and publication productivity of the researchers, the gender differences in the propensity to collaborate with colleagues in other countries are minor only, and not statistically significant. Concerning gender inequality in science, the main challenge seems to be the lower productivity level of female researchers, which obviously hinders their academic career development. Differences in international collaboration are unlikely to be an important factor in this respect, at least not in the Norwegian research context analysed in this study.

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Gender gaps in international research collaboration: a bibliometric approach

2019

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“…In light of the potential for more female authorship of book chapters compared to males [ 4 ], we examined reading type but found that there were too few book chapters (n = 48; 2%) for a meaningful comparison across disciplines and author gender (see S1 Appendix for more detail on reading type). The small number of book chapters seems consistent with the lower status of chapters as a scholarly product.…”

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“…Research in political science found little difference in the overall amount of scholarly productivity (e.g., submitted books, grants, articles) by academic men and women [ 1 ], however, studies across numerous disciplines find women less likely than men to submit and publish published peer-reviewed papers [ 1 – 3 ]. A portion of this difference can be accounted for by women submitting more book chapters compared to men [ 1 , 4 ] but having lower rates of publication for those chapters [ 1 ]. Further, the system that supports academic journal publishing may perpetuate this gender gap as most peer-reviewers [ 5 , 6 ] and editors of academic journals are men [ 7 – 9 ].…”

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“…Fewer citations translates to lower visibility of women’s scholarship compared to men. These patterns of in scholarly productivity and visibility result in differences in salary ( https://www.chronicle.com/article/Divvying-Up-the-Raise-Pool/45750/ ), promotion, and tenure in academia [ 3 ], contributing to the gender stratification [ 16 ] of academic career success [ 3 , 4 , 17 , 18 ].…”

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Diversify the syllabi: Underrepresentation of female authors in college course readings

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Emerging evidence demonstrates that female-authored publications are not well represented in course readings in some fields, resulting in a syllabi gender gap. Lack of representation may decrease student awareness of opportunities in professional fields and disadvantage the career success of female academics. We contribute to the evidence on the syllabi gender gap by: 1) quantifying the extent to which female authors are represented in assigned course readings; 2) examining representation of female authors by gender of instructor and discipline; and 3) comparing female representation in syllabi with the workforce and with representation as authors of peer-reviewed journal articles. From a list of courses offered in 2018–2019 at Washington University in St. Louis, we selected a stratified random sample of course syllabi from four disciplines (humanities; social science; science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; and other). We coded the gender of course instructors and course reading authors using the genderize application programming interface. We examined representation of female authors at the reading, course, and discipline level using descriptive statistics and data visualization. The final sample included 2435 readings from 129 unique courses. The mean percentage of female authors per reading was 34.1%; 822 (33.8%) of readings were female-led (i.e., a female first or sole author). Female authorship varied by discipline, with the highest percentage of female-led readings in social science (40%). Female instructors assigned a higher percentage of readings with female first authors and readings with higher percentages of females on authorship teams. The representation of female authors on syllabi was lower than representation of females as authors in the peer-reviewed literature or in workforce. Adding to evidence of the syllabi gender gap, we found that female authors were underrepresented as sole and first authors and as members of authorship teams. Since assigned readings promote academic scholarship and influence workforce diversity, we recommend several strategies to diversify the syllabi through increasing awareness of the gap and improving access to female-authored publications.

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“…Finally, the authors did not address the concept of gender and research productivity. Research is being conducted in this area (see Mayer & Rathmann, 2018) and is a topic of concern, given that the field of librarianship is dominated by women. Hoffmann et al (2017) found that gender did not have a significant effect on research productivity and so for this work the authors decided not to pursue that as a variable.…”

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An Exploratory Study of Accomplished Librarian-Researchers

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2020

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Objective -This work explores potential factors that may contribute to a librarian becoming a highly productive researcher. An understanding of the factors can provide evidence based guidance to those at the beginning of their research careers in designing their own trajectories and to library administrators who seek to create work conditions that contribute to librarian Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 2020, 15.1 180 research productivity. The current study is the first to explore the factors from the perspective of the profession's most accomplished librarian-researchers.Methods -This exploratory and descriptive study recruited 78 academic librarians identified as highly productive researchers; 46 librarians participated in a survey about their professional training and research environments, research networks, and beliefs about the research process. Respondents supplied a recent CV which was coded to produce a research output score for the past 10 years. In addition to fixed-response questions, there were five open-ended questions about possible success factors. All data were analyzed with descriptive statistics and tests of significance correlations.Results -Accomplished librarian-researchers have professional training backgrounds and research environments that vary widely. None is statistically associated with research output. Those with densely connected networks of research colleagues who both know each other and do research together is significantly related to research output. A large group of those identified in the research networks are "both friend and colleague" and offer each other reciprocal support. In open-ended questions, respondents mentioned factors that equally span the three categories of research success: individual attributes, peers and community, and institutional structures.Conclusion -The authors found that that there are many paths to becoming an accomplished librarian-researcher and numerous factors are conducive to achieving this distinction. A positive research environment includes high institutional expectations; a variety of institutional supports for research; and extrinsic rewards, such as salary increases, tenure, promotion, and opportunities for advancement. The authors further conclude that a librarian's research network may be an important factor in becoming an accomplished librarian-researcher. This finding is supported by both the research network analysis and responses to open-ended questions in which collaboration was a frequent theme.

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How does research productivity relate to gender? Analyzing gender differences for multiple publication dimensions

Cited by 91 publications

References 81 publications

Gender gaps in international research collaboration: a bibliometric approach

Gender gaps in international research collaboration: a bibliometric approach

Diversify the syllabi: Underrepresentation of female authors in college course readings

An Exploratory Study of Accomplished Librarian-Researchers

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