Inequality and collaboration patterns in Canadian nanotechnology: implications for pro-poor and gender-inclusive policy

Gender disparities and positioning in collaborative hospitality and tourism research

“…As was noted in the methodology section, collaborative articles within a given field generate co-authorship networks (Koseoglu et al, 2016) (Liu and Gan, 2018). Previous authors have observed that females may be more inclined towards scientific collaboration than males (Rhoten and Pfirman, 2007), though male authors often hold more important positions within coauthorship networks (Ghiasi et al, 2018).…”

“…An application of degree centrality analysis (Figure 7) Ghiasi et al (2018). The latter concluded that female authors commonly collaborate more than their male peers, based on the evidence of higher degree centrality.…”

“…They also observed that female researchers have a greater propensity to adopt qualitative approaches. Recently, Ghiasi et al, (2018) identified gender inequality and collaboration patterns in Canadian nanotechnology research. They found that papers with female first authors have a lower citation rate than those with male first authors.…”

A cross-dimensional analysis of nanotechnology and equality: examining gender fairness and pro-poor potential in Canada’s R&D landscape

“…More recently, the normative governance of nanotechnology has continued as an explicit theme in the scholarship on RI (Fisher and Rip 2013;Pandza and Ellwood 2013;Radatz et al 2019;Wiek et al 2016). We contribute to this ongoing body of work, particularly work on nanotechnology, equity and RI in the global south (Beumer 2018;Foladori and Invernizzi 2018;Harsh et al 2018;Hartley et al 2019;Vasen 2017) and work on nanotechnology and gender (Ghiasi, Harsh, and Schiffauerova 2018;Meng 2018;Villanueva-Felez, Woolley, and Cañibano 2015) as well as work on RI in the global south (De Hoop, Pols, and Romijn 2016;Macnaghten et al 2014;Valkenburg et al 2020). More generally, we note that inclusion and gender are central concepts in prominent frameworks for RI (Owen and Pansera 2019).…”

“…Nanotechnology's scientific production is also male-dominated: female to male ratio of publication productivity in nanotechnology is 0.28 worldwide and is 0.26 for Canada (Larivière et al 2013) and it could take more than 25 years for women and men to be equally represented in nanotechnology authorship (Holman, Stuart-Fox, and Hauser 2018). Scientific collaboration ties are weaker (Ghiasi, Harsh, and Schiffauerova 2018) and less informative for women in nanotechnology (Villanueva-Felez, Woolley, and Cañibano 2015). Smith-Doerr (2011) calls for further research into gender equity in the emerging nanotechnology sector, underlining nanotechnology's importance to policies that try to halt emerging gender inequity in STEM and promote equality.…”