On the evolution of the glass ceiling in Italian academia: the case of economics

Corsi, Marcella; D’Ippoliti, Carlo; Zacchia, Giulia

doi:10.1017/s0269889720000046

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“…These works echo the findings of a larger literature, not based on network analysis, which highlights institutional concentration in economics (Hodgson & Rothman, 1999), that most, and sometimes virtually all, editorial board members of the so-called top journals graduated and work in a handful of economics departments in the United States; that these editors tend to stay in the role for very long, with possibly negative impact on the production and publication of innovative research (Heckman & Moktan, 2020); and more in general, the highly hierarchical and possibly oligopolistic nature of economics (Fourcade et al, 2015), and the widespread diffusion of scientific misbehaviour and professional malpractice (Le Maux et al, 2019) as well as discrimination (Corsi et al, 2019a(Corsi et al, , 2019b in academic economics as well as among students.…”

Section: The Literature On Citation Networkmentioning

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Social determinants of citations: An empirical analysis of UK economists

D'Ippoliti,

Gobbi,

Mongeau Ospina

et al. 2023

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We investigate to what extent personal proximity and similarity in professional and political attributes, besides scientific factors, help explaining citations between economists. We do so by using a unique dataset of all academic economists based in the United Kingdom, created specifically for this study by merging RePEc data on works published in the past four decades with information collected by manually processing their curriculum vitae (CVs). We investigate directed citations within each pair of authors active in a same year, finding that social factors play an important role as predictors of citations. An author is systematically more likely to cite another economist not only if they work on similar topics, but most relevantly if they have been co‐authors, faculty colleagues, alumni of the same Alma Mater, and even if they express similar political views. The implication is that citations do not signal the intrinsic quality of research outputs only, but they also capture social and professional connections. When citation counts are used to reward academics, economists have an incentive to join many and large professional communities as doing so would increase their predicted citations.

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Section: The Literature On Citation Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social determinants of citations: An empirical analysis of UK economists

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Gobbi,

Mongeau Ospina

et al. 2023

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“…For example, Corsi et al . (2019b) noted that in economics in Italy, women are distributed in a pyramidal shape, with few full professors at the top, more associate professors in between, and the relative majority constituted by assistant professors at the base, whereas for men, the hierarchical structure is just the opposite, looking like an overturned pyramid. Moreover, evidence on economics allowed them to infer that bibliometric methods as well as peer review lead to a disadvantage for women.…”

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Bibliometric Techniques and Their Use in Business and Economics Research

Rousseau

2021

Journal of Economic Surveys

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Bibliometric indicators and bibliometric techniques have been used in the domains of business and economics (BE) in the context of network studies and the evaluation of universities, journals and researchers, among other purposes. Using a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats analysis as a general framework, we present an overview of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats related to the use of mainstream bibliometrics in BE. Several weaknesses in the use of bibliometric indicators for research evaluation in BE, and, in general, are discussed. Misuse of bibliometric indicators may lead to goal displacement and gender bias. Yet, being aware of possible problems leads to opportunities for further developments and applications of bibliometrics in the field of BE. We propose that traditional research evaluation should evolve into evaluative inquiry, a method where bibliometric indicators play a role, but in which all aspects of life and work of a scientific professional can be taken into account and assessment is relabelled in positive terms such as organizational and individual development, care and support.

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“…Bibliometric analysis can help understand the structure and development of this research topic and its evolution [20]. There are some bibliometric research studies on different metaphors of gender inequalities [6,21], but we found very few bibliometric studies on the glass ceiling [21][22][23][24]. More specifically, Carpenter et al [24] conducted a bibliometric analysis to examine the academic trend of women in neurosurgery.…”

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Descriptive Elements and Conceptual Structure of Glass Ceiling Research

Martínez-Fierro

Sancho

2021

IJERPH

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Women make up more than half of the population of every society and are seen as the creators and instructors of the next generation. They are potentially significant human resources in the scientific, social, and cultural development of most countries and, consequently, special attention needs to be paid to the form of their occupational promotion. This paper describes the evolution of research on glass ceiling until July 2020. We compiled a database of 823 articles focused on the field and published in academic journals in the ISI WoS database. Bibliometric methods and techniques were used to describe the evolution of scientific activity, countries, and active institutions, most productive authors, most relevant sources, most influential documents, trend topics, and social structure researched. This determined the state of the art and described the evolution of the literature in this field, and it will help scholars refine existing and initiate new research agendas. A total of 846 documents were identified, and the results showed an upward trend in glass ceiling scientific production. Based on these analyses, possible forms of future research are proposed to advance toward the consolidation of this scientific discipline.

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On the evolution of the glass ceiling in Italian academia: the case of economics

Cited by 6 publications

References 64 publications

Social determinants of citations: An empirical analysis of UK economists

Social determinants of citations: An empirical analysis of UK economists

Bibliometric Techniques and Their Use in Business and Economics Research

Descriptive Elements and Conceptual Structure of Glass Ceiling Research

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