Are female researchers less cited? A large‐scale study of Norwegian scientists

Aksnes, Dag W.; Rørstad, Kristoffer; Piro, Fredrik Niclas; Sivertsen, Gunnar

doi:10.1002/asi.21486

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“…1,2 In this paper, an attempt is made to identify possible demographic and academic factors that help to improve the research output of academics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). Similar studies have been conducted, mainly on US data (for example Xie and Shauman 3 , Aksnes et al 4 and Kyvik and Teigen 5 ), in which it was found that for almost every age group in their respective data sets, men publish more than women. Barjak 6 , Gonzalez-Brambila and Veloso 7 and Kyvik 8 have found that research productivity tends to increase with age, reaching a peak before tapering off towards retirement.…”

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Predicting scientific research output at the University of KwaZulu-Natal

Murray

2017

S. Afr. J. Sci.

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Academic members of staff at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) are expected to publish in research journals that have been accredited by the South African based Department of Higher Education and Training. However, some members of staff have chosen to focus solely on the teaching aspect of their careers and as a result they have no publication record. In this study, a set of per annum productivity unit counts was calculated for every academic at UKZN. Because it is possible for a publishing academic to also record a zero count for a given year, it is necessary to develop an appropriate methodology that can distinguish this zero count from one that will always be recorded by a non-publishing academic. By fitting a zero-inflated Poisson model to the data, specific factors can be identified that separately drive the non-publishing and publishing processes at UKZN. In particular, having a PhD and working in a large school has a significant impact on improving the research output of a publishing academic. If UKZN wants to become a research-focused university, non-publishing academics should be encouraged to under take a PhD degree.

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Predicting scientific research output at the University of KwaZulu-Natal

Murray

2017

S. Afr. J. Sci.

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“…The results are mixed. On one the hand, researchers in several fields found a significant positive GCE for men (Aksnes et al 2011;Davenport and Snyder 1995;Gonzalez-Brambila and Veloso 2007). On the other hand, other researchers did not identify any gendered difference in citation rates (Bordons et al 2003; The point of commonality is that in all forms of Gold OA-whether it is a fully OA journal or an article processing charge (APC) is paid to a TA journal to make the article OA-the route to OA is through the publisher.…”

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Negating the Gender Citation Advantage in Political Science

Atchison

2017

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Open-access (OA) advocates have long promoted OA as an egalitarian alternative to traditional subscription-based academic publishing. The argument is simple: OA gives everyone access to high-quality research at no cost. In turn, this should benefit individual researchers by increasing the number of people reading and citing academic articles. As the OA movement gains traction in the academy, scholars are investing considerable research energy to determine whether there is an OA citation advantage—that is, does OA increase an article’s citation counts? Research indicates that it does. Scholars also explored patterns of gender bias in academic publishing and found that women are cited at lower rates in many disciplines. Indeed, in many disciplines, men enjoy a significant and positive gender citation effect (GCE) compared to their female colleagues. This article combines these research areas to determine whether the OA citation advantage varies by gender. Using Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney (WMW) tests, the nonparametric analog to the independent samples T-test, I conclude that OA benefits male and female political scientists at similar rates. Thus, OA negates the gender citation advantage that typically accrues to male political scientists.

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“…Fruitful combinations of national CRIS data and international data from Web of Science in studies of scientific impact, productivity and mobility have already been illustrated in a few publications (Aksnes et al, 2011;Aksnes et al, 2013). I will give one further illustration here of how the relations between gender, age and scientific publishing can be studied by using connected CRIS data.…”

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Data integration in Scandinavia

Sivertsen

2015

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Recent developments in Scandinavia may be of interest in relation to developing an integrated European research information structure that could provide the basis for an improved knowledge base for research policy. This article describes how reliable bibliographic data in institutional or national research information systems have been developed in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden with performance-based institutional funding models as a driver. It also discusses in more general terms the limitations and potentials of using data from research information systems in bibliometric analysis and in social studies of science.

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Are female researchers less cited? A large‐scale study of Norwegian scientists

Cited by 141 publications

References 25 publications

Predicting scientific research output at the University of KwaZulu-Natal

Predicting scientific research output at the University of KwaZulu-Natal

Negating the Gender Citation Advantage in Political Science

Data integration in Scandinavia

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