Citation bias, diversity, and ethics

Data Reuse in Agricultural Genomics Research: Present Challenges and Future Solutions

“…Funding agencies, universities, and companies would need to make hiring decisions based on this criterion, similarly to how they already do with publication citations. As this would be a rearward facing statistic, it would likely come with the same biases and issues of equity as citations of scientific publications, namely self-citation, gender, racial, and institutional bias 64 , but may still incentivize generation of more reusable datasets.…”

Academic free speech or right-wing grievance?

“…The phrase “merit-based evaluation” is a canard used to justify the status quo, shorthand for refusal to acknowledge implicit bias or the fact that ostensibly objective metrics may encode bias. 185–205 Standardized test scores, 198,199 publication rates, 192–195 citation statistics, 200–205 grant funding, 186–192 patents, 196 and speaking invitations 197 have all been shown to exhibit bias against minoritized scientists. Women in science win fewer awards 206–211 and are less likely to be journal editors 211–213 as compared to men.…”

Editorial: Women in chemical engineering

“…Specifically within Chemical Engineering, an analysis of 31 countries with the most Scopus-indexed articles from 2014-2018 revealed global disparities in the percentage of female first-authored articles (Figure 1) (Thelwall and Mas-Bleda, 2020). Moreover, female-authored papers are cited less frequently (Ray et al, 2022), and female-authored papers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering fields that are accompanied by an author photograph and biography have an additional citation disadvantage (Dehdarirad, 2022).…”