Maatschappelijke oriëntatie en opbrengsten van Nederlandse onderzoeksgroepen werkzaam binnen de gezondheidswetenschappen

Weijden, I.C.M. van der; Verbree, M.; Besselaar, Peter van den

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“…But also other structural and/or behavioral factors may underlie gender productivity differences, hampering female academic careers [ 7 ; 15 ] and leading to a waste of talent. (ii) Women are rather strongly overrepresented in the lower academic positions, and in positions with a temporary contract ( Fig 2 ), positions which are generally characterized by a higher teaching load, less access to funding, less career perspectives, and less opportunities for research [ 16 ; 17 ; 18 ; 19 ]. Indeed, there is a positive relation between job level and productivity.…”

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Vicious circles of gender bias, lower positions, and lower performance: Gender differences in scholarly productivity and impact

2017

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It is often argued that female researchers publish on average less than male researchers do, but male and female authored papers have an equal impact. In this paper we try to better understand this phenomenon by (i) comparing the share of male and female researchers within different productivity classes, and (ii) by comparing productivity whereas controlling for a series of relevant covariates. The study is based on a disambiguated Swedish author dataset, consisting of 47,000 researchers and their WoS-publications during the period of 2008-2011 with citations until 2015. As the analysis shows, in order to have impact quantity does make a difference for male and female researchers alike—but women are vastly underrepresented in the group of most productive researchers. We discuss and test several possible explanations of this finding, using a data on personal characteristics from several Swedish universities. Gender differences in age, authorship position, and academic rank do explain quite a part of the productivity differences.

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