Early in the pandemic (April 2020) I started what became a long #Twitter thread on #gender #bias in academic #publishing.
twitter.com/petersuber/status/…
Starting today, I'm stopping it on Twitter and continuing it on #Mastodon.
Here's a rollup of the complete Twitter thread.
resee.it/tweet/125298113985535…
Here's a nearly complete archived version in the @waybackmachine.
web.archive.org/web/2022090813…
Watch this space for updates.
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This entry was edited (1 year ago)
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in reply to petersuber • • •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
SpringerLinkpetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20…
Differential correction of gender imbalance for top-cited scientists across scientific subfields over time
bioRxivpetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •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
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in reply to petersuber • • •academic.oup.com/ser/advance-a…
petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •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
REF 2021: female academics ‘much less likely’ to be submitted
Jack Grove (Times Higher Education (THE))petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…
Altmetric scores in Political Science are gendered – does it matter?
Impact of Social Sciencespetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •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
Valian, Virginiapetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •academic.oup.com/rfs/article/3…
petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •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
Jeanne Peijnenburg (Aeon Magazine)petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •sciencedirect.com/science/arti…
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in reply to petersuber • • •tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •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
Google Bookspetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •journals.plos.org/plosone/arti…
Overemphasis on publications may disadvantage historically excluded groups in STEM before and during COVID-19: A North American survey-based study
journals.plos.orgpetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi…
petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •link.springer.com/article/10.1…
Author gender and citation categorization: a study of high-impact medical journals - Scientometrics
SpringerLinkpetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •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
Journal of Medical Internet Researchpetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •link.springer.com/article/10.1…
Do male and female authors employ different journal choice strategies? - Scientometrics
SpringerLinkpetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •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."
petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/32448/…
petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •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
Jeroen PH Verharen (eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd)petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •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?
Impact of Social Sciencespetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •link.springer.com/article/10.1…
Are female scientists less inclined to publish alone? The gender solo research gap - Scientometrics
SpringerLinkpetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •nature.com/articles/s41599-023…
Female early-career scientists have conducted less interdisciplinary research in the past six decades: evidence from doctoral theses - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Naturepetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •journals.plos.org/plosone/arti…
Gender imbalances in the editorial activities of a selective journal run by academic editors
journals.plos.orgpetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •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
Oza, Anilpetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •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.)
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www.primaryresearch.competersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •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
petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •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
Cambridge Corepetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •nature.com/articles/d41586-024…
Nature publishes too few papers from women researchers — that must change
www.nature.competersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •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
Impact of Social Sciencespetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •doi.org/10.1093/ajcp/aqae018
Analysis of editor in chief gender and associated journal variables among 126 pathology journals
Wang, Dayle K (Oxford University Press)petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •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?
Impact of Social Sciencespetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •doi.org/10.7312/cole21260-017
(#paywalled book chapter)
CHAPTER 15 MARRIAGE, MOTHERHOOD, AND RESEARCH PERFORMANCE IN SCIENCE (1987)
De Gruyterpetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •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
PeerJ PrePrintspetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •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
Wang, Dashunpetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •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
petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •link.springer.com/article/10.1…
(#paywalled)
Women’s strength in science: exploring the influence of female participation on research impact and innovation - Scientometrics
SpringerLinkpetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •link.springer.com/article/10.1…
Impact as equalizer: the demise of gender-related differences in anti-doping research - Scientometrics
SpringerLinkpetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •science.org/doi/full/10.1126/s…
petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •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
Erin Spencer Sairam (Forbes)petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •sciencedirect.com/science/arti…
petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •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
petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •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
GandS_metascience_call.pdf
Google Docspetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •link.springer.com/chapter/10.1…
(#paywalled)
Major Developments and Events in the Humanities and Scholarly Publishing: 2000–2014
Albert N. Greco (Springer Nature Switzerland)petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •ebooks.iospress.nl/doi/10.3233…
IOS Press Ebooks - Gender and Geographical Representation on Editorial Board Members of Medical Informatics Journals
ebooks.iospress.nlpetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/1…
petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •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
Complexity Science Hub Vienna (Phys.org)petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •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%."