Gender of Personality and Individual Differences (PAID) contributors: An analysis of recent years (2008–2016)

González-Álvarez, Julio

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2017.05.044

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“…More generally, papers with only male authors were more abundant than would be expected if collaborations were assembled without consideration of gender, though this pattern was much stronger in the larger published papers dataset (Figure 4) than in the smaller submitted papers dataset ( Figure A3). These results are consistent with similar patterns observed in other fields-that women coauthor papers with other women, and men with other men, more often than would be expected if collaborations were assembled without regard for gender (Bonham & Stefan, 2017;Fishman et al, 2017;González-Alvarez, 2017;Long, Leszczynski, Thompson, Wasan, & Calderwood, 2015;McCann, Ebert, Timmins, & Thompson, 2017;Shah, Huang, Ying, Pietrobon, & O'Brien, 2013). Similar associative gender sorting has been reported for academic mentor-mentee relationships (e.g., Davis, Jacobsen, & Ryan, 2015).…”

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Patterns of authorship in ecology and evolution: First, last, and corresponding authorship vary with gender and geography

Fox

Ritchey

Paine

2018

Ecology and Evolution

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The position of an author on the byline of a paper affects the inferences readers make about their contributions to the research. We examine gender differences in authorship in the ecology literature using two datasets: submissions to six journals between 2010 and 2015 (regardless of whether they were accepted), and manuscripts published by 151 journals between 2009 and 2015. Women were less likely to be last (i.e., “senior”) authors (averaging ~23% across journals, years, and datasets) and sole authors (~24%), but more likely to be first author (~38%), relative to their overall frequency of authorship (~31%). However, the proportion of women in all authorship roles, except sole authorship, has increased year‐on‐year. Women were less likely to be authors on papers with male last authors, and all‐male papers were more abundant than expected given the overall gender ratio. Women were equally well represented on papers published in higher versus lower impact factor journals at all authorship positions. Female first authors were less likely to serve as corresponding author of their papers; this difference increased with the degree of gender inequality in the author's home country, but did not depend on the gender of the last author. First authors from non‐English‐speaking countries were less likely to serve as corresponding author of their papers, especially if the last author was from an English‐speaking country. That women more often delegate corresponding authorship to one of their coauthors may increase the likelihood that readers undervalue their role in the research by shifting credit for their contributions to coauthors. We suggest that author contribution statements be more universally adopted and that these statements declare how and/or why the corresponding author was selected for this role.

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confidence: 88%

Patterns of authorship in ecology and evolution: First, last, and corresponding authorship vary with gender and geography

Fox

Ritchey

Paine

2018

Ecology and Evolution

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“…Finally, we observed a phenomenon also found in previous gender studies (González-Alvarez, 2017; González-Alvarez & Cervera-Crespo, 2017, 2019): the collaborative pattern among APA authorships is, in a way, dependent on which gender occupied the first and last positions in the article byline (see Figure 3). Thus, within the set of articles signed by a man in the first position, the number of male and female authorships was 59,500 (77.7%) and 17,125 (22.3%), respectively, more asymmetrical than the overall proportion; χ 2 (df = 1) = 4447.71, p < 0.0001, Cramer’s V = .143.…”

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“…On the contrary, women are relatively underrepresented in the last/senior position. This double phenomenon has been observed in other contemporary gender analyses (González-Alvarez, 2017, 2018; González-Alvarez & Cervera-Crespo, 2017, 2019). In many fields, including behavioral sciences, the last author position is a key place frequently occupied by the senior or leading member of a project or research group (Waltman, 2012), generally a scientist with a consolidated (and presumably long) career.…”

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Women Publishing in American Psychological Association Journals: A Gender Analysis of Six Decades

González-Álvarez

Sos‐Peña

2019

Psychol Rep

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Despite recent advances, gender inequality persists in many scientific fields, and Psychology is not alien to this phenomenon. This study presents the evolution of gender composition in American Psychological Association publications in the past six decades, from 1963 to 2016. Longitudinal analysis revealed an important change: women rose from a tiny 12% to 14% in the 1960s to almost gender parity in the last decade (2010s). The pattern of collaboration (coauthorship) shows that women tend to be slightly overrepresented as first author and underrepresented as the last or senior author. In the last two decades, women outnumber men as “new” American Psychological Association authors (authors who publish for the first time in an American Psychological Association journal). These features and the fact that men’s publications tend to encompass a much wider range of years suggest that age may play a role in the gender composition of American Psychological Association contributors.

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Author gender differences in psychology citation impact 1996–2018

Thelwall

2019

Int J Psychol

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Academic psychology in the USA is a gender success story in terms of overturning its early male dominance but there are still relatively few senior female psychology researchers. To assess whether there are gender differences in citation impact that might help to explain either of these trends, this study investigates psychology articles since 1996. Seven out of eight Scopus psychology categories had a majority of female first-authored journal articles by 2018. From regression analyses of first and last author gender and team size, female first authors associate with a slightly higher average citation impact, but extra authors have a ten times stronger association with higher average citation impact. Last author gender has little association with citation impact. Female first authors are more likely to be in larger teams and if team size is attributed to the first author's work, then their apparent influence of female first authors on citation impact doubles. Whilst gender differences in average citation impact are too small to account for gender-related trends in academic psychology, they warn that male dominated citation-based ranking lists of psychologists do not reflect the state of psychology research today.

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Gender of Personality and Individual Differences (PAID) contributors: An analysis of recent years (2008–2016)

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

Patterns of authorship in ecology and evolution: First, last, and corresponding authorship vary with gender and geography

Patterns of authorship in ecology and evolution: First, last, and corresponding authorship vary with gender and geography

Women Publishing in American Psychological Association Journals: A Gender Analysis of Six Decades

Author gender differences in psychology citation impact 1996–2018

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