Who Cites Women? Whom Do Women Cite?: An Exploration of Gender and Scholarly Citation in Sociology

Davenport, Elisabeth; Snyder, Herbert

doi:10.1108/eb026958

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“…Of the six journals specifically compared for gender differences in citations rates (Table 2) The lack of a gender bias in citation rates of women's scholarship in the field of dendrochronology is unusual and contrasts with significantly lower citation rates for women-authored papers in sociology and library science (Ward et al 1992;Davenport and Snyder 1995;Hakanson 2005). What is unique about dendrochronology that makes gender immaterial for citation rate?…”

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“…Thus, for a researcher to publish data or findings that are never cited essentially isolates this individual and excludes them from participating as a functioning contributor to the research community. It is for this reason that gender bias in citation rates has been a documented, critical barrier to women's success in the social sciences, information sciences, life sciences, and the humanities (Davenport and Snyder 1995;McElhinny et al 2003;Penas and Willett 2006;Symonds et al 2006). Gender differences in citation rate appear to be discipline specific, so identifying whether a difference exists within a discipline is an important factor for making fair and equitable decisions regarding the evaluation and promotion of female and male researchers (Ward et al 1992).…”

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Lack of Gender Bias in Citation Rates of Publications by Dendrochronologists: What is Unique about this Discipline?

2010

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Most academic disciplines have a gender bias that exists in the recognition of research publications: women's publications are cited at lower rates than men's publications. In this paper, we examined whether a similar gender bias existed for publications by dendrochronologists. Tree-ring research is a fairly small field where males outnumber females, and therefore the sample size was limited to 20 female dendrochronologists and 20 male dendrochronologists. It was determined that native language (English or non-native English speaker), current employment (government or academic), and gender of the first-author do not significantly influence a paper's probability of being cited. However, years since dissertation completion was a good predictor of a paper's citation rate. We suggest that the high productivity of female dendrochronologists and a pattern of co-authoring with male colleagues bring the work of females to the attention of their male colleagues and thus eliminate the gender bias in citation of women's work common to other disciplines.

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Lack of Gender Bias in Citation Rates of Publications by Dendrochronologists: What is Unique about this Discipline?

2010

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“…Research on articles in sociology [6] and astrophysics [2] finds that articles written by men are more cited than articles written by women. However, the citation count of articles in ecology suggests that gender does not influence citation counts in this particular field of research [12].…”

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Citation counts in transportation research

Hanssen

Jørgensen

2013

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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Purpose In addition to the number of published articles, citation counts are traditionally interpreted as measures of publication merit. They are therefore used to evaluate researchers, research departments, universities and journals. Building on research conducted in scientometrics, we employ data from research articles in transportation research to investigate the influence on article citation counts of article and author characteristics in that particular field of research. Method and results Using standard OLS-regression with robust standard errors we find that articles with a high number of references are cited more frequently than articles with fewer references, that articles written by authors from more than one country are more cited than articles written by authors from one country only, and that short-titled articles tend to be more cited than articles with longer titles. To the best of our knowledge this is the first study investigating factors influencing citation counts in transportation research. Implications for researchers, editors and funders are suggested.

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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.…”

Section: Gender and Academic Citationsmentioning

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Negating the Gender Citation Advantage in Political Science

Atchison

2017

APSC

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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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Who Cites Women? Whom Do Women Cite?: An Exploration of Gender and Scholarly Citation in Sociology

Cited by 58 publications

References 5 publications

Lack of Gender Bias in Citation Rates of Publications by Dendrochronologists: What is Unique about this Discipline?

Lack of Gender Bias in Citation Rates of Publications by Dendrochronologists: What is Unique about this Discipline?

Citation counts in transportation research

Negating the Gender Citation Advantage in Political Science

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