Update. In political science, "journal articles authored exclusively by female scholars score 27% lower on average [on Altmetric Attention Scores, AAS] than exclusively male-authored outputs. However, men are also more likely to write articles with an AAS of zero. These patterns are shaped by the presence of high-scoring male 'superstars' whose research attracts much online attention." https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41304-023-00431-y
Update. "We evaluated how the #gender composition of top-cited authors within different subfields of research has evolved over time…Men outnumbered women 1.88-fold among all authors, decreasing from 3.93-fold to 1.36-fold over time. Men outnumbered women 3.21-fold among top-cited authors, decreasing from 6.41-fold to 2.28-fold over time." Imbalances varied greatly by discipline. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.25.542328v1
Update. "We argue that [the] collaborative knowledge practices of inclusive editorial governance, #OpenAccess, and #OpenPeerReview of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, [#JITP] are fundamentally #feminist, as they diversify scholarly voices and increase access to the material channels in and through which knowledge circulates."
Update. "We find that sex differences in the number of publications, citations, and citations per publication were small across low and medium levels of productivity, but become more pronounced the higher the level of performance. In the top performing 10% the female proportion decreases from the average 43.2% to 26%." https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03075079.2023.2223638
Update. In the field of #economics, after the #pandemic, "men and women both experienced production increases [i.e. posted more working papers] with the exception of women between the age of 35 and 49, who experienced no production gains despite large increases for men in the same age group." https://academic.oup.com/rfs/article/36/8/3348/6854998
"We looked at all the 3,288 articles that appeared in six [major analytic] philosophy journals between 1896 and 1960…On average, only 4%…were authored by women. Most of these women, 70 in number, are presently forgotten…Only four of the 246 papers presented at meetings of Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy, [#SSHAP] in the period 2015 to 2019 were about female philosophers – less than 2%."
Update. New study of #editors of medical-education journals published in the global #south: "Among 1219 editors, 57.5% were men. Out of 46 editors in chief (EICs), 34.7% were women, and 60.9% were based in high income countries. No EIC belonged to low-income country. The proportion of female advisory board members was found to be positively correlated with the presence of a female EIC." https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0142159X.2023.2249212
Update. New study, my paraphrase: Gender and racial bias in academic publishing doesn't show up just in acceptance rates, citation rates, and representation rates on editorial boards. It also shows up in publishing rates during times of stress, such as the pandemic. Using publication tallies as an assessment metric can aggravate this bias. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0291124
Update. New study: "The proportion of positive [supporting] and negative [criticizing] citations was higher for publications whose first/last authors were women (vs. men), while the opposite was true for neutral [mentioning] citations." https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-023-04827-x
Update. In medical journals, "women were underrepresented among authors of retracted articles, and, in particular, of articles retracted for #misconduct." https://www.jmir.org/2023/1/e48529
"There were differences in acceptance rates by region of residence, ethnicity, and race but not by gender. Asian authors and authors residing in regions outside of North America had greater odds of rejection compared to White or North American authors."
Update. New study (book chapter): "Male researchers publish more papers than female researchers & this difference increases over the course of scientific careers.…By contrast, female researchers achieve higher citation impact & publish in more prestigious journals than male researchers over the course of their careers, especially among researchers with short careers…The results suggest that many women with high potential leave the science system early in their careers." https://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/32448/1/Tekles_Alexander.pdf#page=155
Update. New study using #ChatGPT to assess referee reports: "Female first authors received less polite reviews than their male peers… In addition, published papers with a female senior author received more favorable reviews than papers with a male senior author." https://elifesciences.org/articles/90230
Update. "Between 2015 and 2022, our findings suggests that men in [#Germany, in #economics] tend to seek reputation, while women favor visibility through #OpenAccess, at least at the margin. While authorship in teams can dilute these behavioral patterns, female economists publish more single-authored papers. Overall female researchers appear to contribute more to the public good of open science." https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2023.104874
Update. I missed this piece from March 2022: "This research is the first to comprehensively study the 'gender solo research gap' among all internationally visible scientists within a whole national higher education system…The gender solo research gap in #Poland is much weaker than expected: within a more general trend toward team research and international research, gender differences in solo research are much weaker and less relevant than initially assumed." https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-022-04308-7
Update. The doctoral dissertations of women are interdisciplinary less often than those of men, and this could "hinder their [women's] career advancement." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-023-02392-5
Update. New study: "Merely increasing the proportion of women might not be sufficient to eliminate [gender] bias. Measures accounting for women’s circumstances and needs…and raising editorial awareness to women’s needs may be essential to increasing gender equity and enhancing academic publication." https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0294805
@petersuber whew. As a woman in computer science, I have a LOT to say on this topic, but mostly just that increasing the numbers of members of a marginalized group that you put into a hostile or toxic environment doesn't fix the environment - mostly it harms those self-same marginalized people.
Update. "Citation attributions exhibit gender homophily…that is, gender alignment between citing and cited authors. This pattern greatly disadvantages women in fields where they are underrepresented." https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2023.104895
Update. This qualification applies to all the studies I've collected in this thread: "Different research does not understand the concepts of 'man/woman' and 'male/female' in the same way, and there is no discussion nor written consensus on how to tackle these issues ethically and correctly within #Bibliometrics." https://digibug.ugr.es/bitstream/handle/10481/88251/Gender1.pdf
Another qualification: Most of these studies determine the sex/gender of authors by using software that makes guesses based on their names.
Update. Missed this one from Nov 2017: The #OpenAccess citation advantage (#OACA) is real and it "benefits male and female political scientists at similar rates. Thus, OA negates the gender citation advantage that typically accrues to male political scientists." https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096517000014
Update. Nature studied its own recent publication record. It found that just 17% of its submissions were from authors who identify as women. Also found a slightly lower acceptance rate for women than for men (8% v 9%). This editorial outlines steps to do better, inc asking authors to self-report their #gender. The journal promises periodic progress reports. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00640-5
Update. In 126 pathology journals, "women made up only 18% of the 141 total editor in chief positions…Among 10 journals with 2 editor in chief positions, 5 had only men and 5 had 1 man and 1 woman. All 3 journals with 3 editor in chief positions had 2 men and 1 woman." https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcp/aqae018
Update. "I [Cary Wu] show that articles written by women receive comparable or even higher rates of citations than articles written by men. However, women tend to accumulate fewer citations over time and at the career level."
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