An Examination of Author Characteristics in National and Regional Criminology and Criminal Justice Journals, 2008–2010: Are Female Scholars Changing the Nature of Publishing in Criminology and Criminal Justice?

Crow, Matthew S.; Smykla, John Ortiz

doi:10.1007/s12103-014-9250-x

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“…We found evidence that researchers work with same-gendered coauthors more often than expected under the null model, even after implementing stringent controls for Wahlund effects (Figure 1). Our study therefore reaffirms earlier studies’ conclusions [49–57,62] using stricter methodology, and generalises their results across the life sciences. Relatively few journals had α′ values below zero, and almost no journals showed statistically significant gender heterophily after controlling for multiple testing.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

“…For reasons such as these, multiple studies have examined the author lists of published research articles in order to test for gender differences in collaboration frequency or pattern. To our knowledge, most or all such studies imply that men co-publish with men, and women with women, more often than expected if collaborators assort randomly with respect to gender [49–58]. This pattern of assortative publishing has often been termed ‘gender homophily’.…”

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Researchers collaborate with same-gendered colleagues more often than expected across the life sciences

Holman

Morandin

2018

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4Evidence suggests that women in academia are hindered by conscious and un-5 conscious biases, and often feel excluded from formal and informal opportunities for 6 research collaboration. In addition to ensuring fairness and helping to redress gender 7 imbalance in the academic workforce, increasing women's access to collaboration could 8 help scientific progress by drawing on more of the available human capital. Here, we 9 test whether researchers preferentially collaborate with same-gendered colleagues, using 10 more stringent methods and a larger dataset than in past work. Our results reaffirm that 11 researchers preferentially co-publish with colleagues of the same gender, and show that 12 this 'gender homophily' is slightly stronger today than it was 10 years ago. Contrary 13 to our expectations, we found no evidence that homophily is driven mostly by senior 14 academics, and no evidence that homophily is stronger in fields where women are in the 15 minority. Interestingly, journals with a high impact factor for their discipline tended to 16 have comparatively low homophily, as predicted if mixed-gender teams produce better 17 research. We discuss some potential causes of gender homophily in science.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Researchers collaborate with same-gendered colleagues more often than expected across the life sciences

Holman

Morandin

2018

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“…Studies have found that there is variation in the percentage of CCJ journal articles which are sole-authored and the mean number of authors per article across journals (Crow & Smykla, 2015;Sever, 2005;Tewksbury et al, 2010;Tewksbury et al, 2005;Tewksbury & Mustaine, 2011;Woodward et al, 2016) and methodological approaches (Crow & Smykla, 2015;Fisher et al, 1998;Tewksbury et al, 2005). Of particular relevance to the focus of the present study, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (JCLC), which has a section specifically devoted to legal scholarship, has a very high percentage of sole-authored articles (75.76% during 1999-2000Sever, 2005).…”

Section: Collaboration In Ccj Scholarshipmentioning

confidence: 78%

“…While there are no known studies specifically focusing on the authorship of legal scholarship published in CCJ journals, there is a body of literature examining articles published in CCJ journals which has findings pertaining to the authorship of CCJ journal articles more generally. Such research has found that multiple authorship is common (Crow & Smykla, 2015;Fisher, Vander Ven, Cobane, Cullen, & Williams, 1998; Gonzalez-Alcaide, Melero-Fuentes, Aleixandre-Benavent, & Valderrama-Zurian, 2013;Sever, 2005;Tewksbury, Dabney, & Copes, 2010;Tewksbury, DeMichele, & Miller, 2005;Tewksbury & Mustaine, 2011;Woodward, Webb, Griffin, & Copes, 2016). While sole-authorship was once the norm, it is now relatively rare (Tewksbury & Mustaine, 2011).…”

Section: Collaboration In Ccj Scholarshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Invisible Scholar: Authors of Legal Scholarship in Criminology and Criminal Justice Journals

Rowe¹,

McCann²,

Hemmens³

2018

Journal of Criminal Justice Education

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This study assesses the authorship of legal scholarship within 20 criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) journals from 2005 through 2015, examining trends over time and variation across journals in the prevalence of sole-authorship and the mean number of authors and identifying the most prolific authors of legal scholarship published in CCJ journals. The study thus sheds light on the extent of collaboration among CCJ legal scholars and identifies CCJ legal scholars who have remained largely invisible due to their focus on a marginalized subfield.

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“…The review found that most research on authorship of published works focused on disciplines/set of journals, in a range of fields, rather than reading lists in higher education. The vast majority of the studies examined the gender of the authors (Schucan Bird 2011; Boschini and Sjögren 2007;Crow and Smykla 2015;Dickersin et al 1998;Eigenberg and Whalley 2015;Karimi et al 2016;Mauleón and Bordons 2006;West et al 2013), with few studies focusing on ethnicity (Freeman and Huang 2015) and/or institutional affiliation (Crow and Smykla 2015;Hinnant et al 2012). The methods used in these studies were diverse, ranging from manually reviewing publications to inferring an author's sex from their name/photograph (Schucan Bird 2011; Dickersin et al 1998;Eigenberg and Whalley 2015) to using software to assign demographic categories on the basis of authors' names (Freeman and Huang 2015;West et al 2013).…”

Section: Stagementioning

confidence: 99%

How diverse is your reading list? Exploring issues of representation and decolonisation in the UK

Bird¹,

Pitman²

2019

High Educ

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There is a growing impetus, from university students and administrations, to decolonise the curriculum and develop diverse reading lists. Yet, there is limited theoretical or empirical analysis of the authorship of current reading lists to justify this imperative. The present study developed and applied a method for auditing the authorship on reading lists of two modules, one from science and one from social science, in a research-intensive British university. The paper explores whether these reading lists can be considered descriptively representative of the student body or scholarly community. The analysis of reading lists found empirical basis for concerns that university curricula are dominated by white, male and Eurocentric authors, with some exceptions. The reading lists did not represent the diverse local student body but came closer to representing the demographic profile of academic staff. To interpret these findings, the paper argues that reading lists have a role to play in decolonising our universities, and offer opportunities to critique and deconstruct disciplinary boundaries. Further research is required to explore student and staff views of reading lists and the meaning of diversity, to evaluate existing tools, and address barriers to decolonising our curricula on a global scale.

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An Examination of Author Characteristics in National and Regional Criminology and Criminal Justice Journals, 2008–2010: Are Female Scholars Changing the Nature of Publishing in Criminology and Criminal Justice?

Cited by 21 publications

References 43 publications

Researchers collaborate with same-gendered colleagues more often than expected across the life sciences

Researchers collaborate with same-gendered colleagues more often than expected across the life sciences

The Invisible Scholar: Authors of Legal Scholarship in Criminology and Criminal Justice Journals

How diverse is your reading list? Exploring issues of representation and decolonisation in the UK

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