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."
link.springer.com/article/10.1…

#Altmetrics #Gender #PoliticalScience

Alternative metrics, traditional problems? Assessing gender dynamics in the altmetrics of political science - European Political Science

Altmetrics are an emerging form of bibliometric measurement that capture the online dimension of scholarly exchange.

^SpringerLink

Update. "Among all editors [of major #pediatrics journals], 39.2%…were women, and 38.4% of physician editors…were women."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

#Gender #GenderBias

Update. "Female scientists were much less likely than their male counterparts to be submitted for #assessment in the last Research Excellence Framework (#REF), according to an analysis."
timeshighereducation.com/news/…
(#paywalled)

#Gender #UK

Update. Review of _Equity for Women in Science_ by Cassidy Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière (Harvard University Press, 2023).
nature.com/articles/d41586-023…

"#Gender gaps are still with us."

Science’s gender gap: the shocking data that reveal its true extent

Analysis of which researchers publish, get credit, move around, get funding, collaborate and receive citations shows how deeply ingrained the bias against women is.

^{Valian, Virginia}

Update. Women in analytic #philosophy 1896-1960.
aeon.co/essays/the-lost-women-…

"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%."

The lost women of early analytic philosophy | Aeon Essays

Twin forces marginalised the women of early analytic philosophy. Correct those mistakes, and the next generation benefits

^{Jeanne Peijnenburg (Aeon Magazine)}

Update. Anna Kristina Hultgren and Pejman Habibie (eds.), _Women in Scholarly Publishing_, a new book from Routledge.

At least temporarily free to read from this link.
google.com/books/edition/Women…

Publisher's page, suggesting that the book is not out yet and not OA.
routledge.com/Women-in-Scholar…

Women in Scholarly Publishing

Women in Scholarly Publishing explores the under-researched topic of gender and scholarly publishing. While often considered separately, the relationship between gender and scholarly publishing has been neglected.

^{Google Books}

Update. In medical journals, "women were underrepresented among authors of retracted articles, and, in particular, of articles retracted for #misconduct."
jmir.org/2023/1/e48529

#Gender #Medicine #Quality #Retractions

Women Are Underrepresented Among Authors of Retracted Publications: Retrospective Study of 134 Medical Journals

We examined the gender distribution of authors of retracted articles in 134 medical journals across 10 disciplines, compared it with the gender distribution of authors of all published articles, and found that women were underrepresented among author…

^{Journal of Medical Internet Research}

Update. The Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (#JPSM) studied its own publishing history and released the results.
jpsmjournal.com/article/S0885-…

"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 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."
elifesciences.org/articles/902…

#AI #Bias #Gender #PeerReview

ChatGPT identifies gender disparities in scientific peer review

Generative artificial intelligence, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, can be used to analyze scientific texts with specialized constructions, including peer review reports.

^{Jeroen PH Verharen (eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd)}

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."
doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2023.…

Summary by one of the co-authors:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

Female researchers are less influenced by journal prestige – will it hold back their careers?

Drawing on a natural experiment that occurred when German institutions lost access to journals published by Elsevier, W. Benedikt Schmal shows how female researchers made significantly different pu…

^{Impact of Social Sciences}

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."
doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2023.…

Summary
nature.com/articles/d41586-023…

Citations show gender bias — and the reasons are surprising

Gender bias in paper citations is less common among younger scientists, but it still plays a part in making women’s research less visible.

^{Oza, Anil}

Update. From a survey of university faculty in the US: "Males were twice as likely as females to use #AI to recommend journals to which to submit research articles."
primaryresearch.com/AddCart.as…

(Unfortunately the full results are not #OpenAccess and not even close. One copy of the PDF costs $98.)

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."
digibug.ugr.es/bitstream/handl…

Another qualification: Most of these studies determine the sex/gender of authors by using software that makes guesses based on their names.

#Gender

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."
doi.org/10.1017/S1049096517000…

#PoliticalScience #SSH

Negating the Gender Citation Advantage in Political Science | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core

Negating the Gender Citation Advantage in Political Science - Volume 50 Issue 2

^{Cambridge Core}

Update. "Drawing on the archives of the LSE Impact Blog, this review brings together ten posts that explore the gendered nature of research and scholarly communication."
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

#Gender #ScholComm

Women, academia and the unequal production of knowledge – An LSE Impact Blog review

Higher education is often presumed to be a uniquely egalitarian and meritocratic field. However, persistent inequalities within academic work and increasingly the current and historic mechanisms un…

^{Impact of Social Sciences}

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."

* primary source
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.co…

* summary
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

Why are women cited less than men?

Strong evidence suggests that women are not cited less per article than men, but that they accumulate fewer citations over time and at the career level. Cary Wu argues that a focus on research prod…

^{Impact of Social Sciences}

Update. "Women's contributions [to #OpenSource software projects] tend to be accepted more often than men's. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless."
peerj.com/preprints/1733v1/

#FOSS #FLOSS #Gender

Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men

Biases against women in the workplace have been documented in a variety of studies. This paper presents the largest study to date on gender bias, where we compare acceptance rates of contributions from men versus women in an open source software comm…

^{PeerJ PrePrints}

Update. "Male faculty members typically patented their research two to ten times more often than did their female counterparts, although this rate varied by university and discipline. But when we measured the extent to which the two groups’ scientific publications were cited by patents, we found no statistically significant difference. In other words, female scientists’ work is just as close to the technological frontier."
nature.com/articles/d41586-024…

#patents

How I’m using AI tools to help universities maximize research impacts

Artificial-intelligence algorithms could identify scientists who need support with translating their work into real-world applications and more. Leaders must step up.

^{Wang, Dashun}

Update. "We show that dropout rates of #mathematicians after their postdoctoral stage, which used to be higher for women, are converging on similar figures for both genders…[But] a non-negligible number of the prestigious mathematical journals…show a meager representation of women among their authors…and exhibit no signs of turnaround over the last couple of decades."
content.ems.press/assets/publi…

#Gender #Mathematics

Update. Missed this one from 2020: "The last three years of reported data all show women leading men in representation in #law schools in the US. This past academic year, however, ushered in a new first: women leading the masthead of each top law journal."
forbes.com/sites/erinspencer1/…

h/t #ArthurBoston

First All-Women Class Of Top Law Journal Editors Leaves Behind A Byline And Legacy

The last three years of reported data all show women leading men in representation in law schools in the US. This past academic year ushered in a new first: women leading the masthead of each top law journal.

^{Erin Spencer Sairam (Forbes)}

Update. Most journals of radiology (60.3%) fail to meet even one of the #SAGER (Sex and Gender Equity in Research) criteria. However, those that did had higher journal impact factors.
ejradiology.com/article/S0720-…

#DEI #Gender #Impact #JIF

Update. The journal 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 & 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 is calling for submissions on "the relationship between feminism, metascience, and open science."
drive.google.com/file/d/181Myc…

#Feminism #Gender #OpenScience
@openscience

Update. New study: "With roughly the same number of men and women in the world, we should expect this [#gender] gap to close in an equal society. But what we see in reality is a persistent gap in #physics over time."

* Summary
phys.org/news/2024-09-gender-g…

* Primary source with proposed explanation
nature.com/articles/s42005-024…

Why the gender gap in physics has been stable for more than a century

As a physicist and data scientist with a keen interest in gender inequality, Fariba Karimi was amazed to discover that the gender gap in physics has remained almost unchanged since 1900.

^{Complexity Science Hub Vienna (Phys.org)}

Update. The Journal of Cardiac Failure switched from single-blind to double-blind peer review to increase the number of its women authors. Three years later it reports the results.
onlinejcf.com/article/S1071-91…
(#paywalled)

"The proportion of women first authors increased from 24% in Era 1 to 34% in Era 2 to 39% in Era 3 while the percentage of women authors serving in a senior authorship role remained fairly stable over time around 21-22%."