The specific shapes of gender imbalance in scientific authorships : a network approach
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Resumo: | Gender differences in collaborative research have received little at- tention when compared with the growing importance that women hold in academia and research. Unsurprisingly, most of bibliomet- ric databases have a strong lack of directly available information by gender. Although empirical-based network approaches are often used in the study of research collaboration, the studies about the influence of gender dissimilarities on the resulting topological outcomes are still scarce. Here, networks of scientific subjects are used to characterize patterns that might be associated to five categories of authorships which were built based on gender. We find enough evidence that gen- der imbalance in scientific authorships brings a peculiar trait to the networks induced from papers published in Web of Science (WoS) in- dexed journals of Economics over the period 2010-2015 and having at least one author affiliated to a Portuguese institution. Our re- sults show the emergence of a specific pattern when the network of co-occurring subjects is induced from a set of papers exclusively au- thored by men. Such a male-exclusive authorship condition is found to be the solely responsible for the emergence that particular shape in the network structure. This peculiar trait might facilitate future network analyses of research collaboration and interdisciplinarity. |
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The specific shapes of gender imbalance in scientific authorships : a network approachCo-occurrence NetworksGenderResearch CollaborationInter-DisciplinarityBibliometricsMinimum Spanning TreeGender differences in collaborative research have received little at- tention when compared with the growing importance that women hold in academia and research. Unsurprisingly, most of bibliomet- ric databases have a strong lack of directly available information by gender. Although empirical-based network approaches are often used in the study of research collaboration, the studies about the influence of gender dissimilarities on the resulting topological outcomes are still scarce. Here, networks of scientific subjects are used to characterize patterns that might be associated to five categories of authorships which were built based on gender. We find enough evidence that gen- der imbalance in scientific authorships brings a peculiar trait to the networks induced from papers published in Web of Science (WoS) in- dexed journals of Economics over the period 2010-2015 and having at least one author affiliated to a Portuguese institution. Our re- sults show the emergence of a specific pattern when the network of co-occurring subjects is induced from a set of papers exclusively au- thored by men. Such a male-exclusive authorship condition is found to be the solely responsible for the emergence that particular shape in the network structure. This peculiar trait might facilitate future network analyses of research collaboration and interdisciplinarity.ISEG - Departamento de EconomiaRepositório da Universidade de LisboaAraújo, TanyaFontainha, Elsa2016-09-23T12:53:28Z20162016-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/12192engAraújo, Tanya e Elsa Fontainha .2016. "The specific shapes of gender imbalance in scientific authorships : a network approach". Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão. DE Working papers nº 17-2016/DE/UECE2183-1815info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-03-06T14:42:24Zoai:www.repository.utl.pt:10400.5/12192Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T16:58:22.115748Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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The specific shapes of gender imbalance in scientific authorships : a network approach |
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The specific shapes of gender imbalance in scientific authorships : a network approach |
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The specific shapes of gender imbalance in scientific authorships : a network approach Araújo, Tanya Co-occurrence Networks Gender Research Collaboration Inter-Disciplinarity Bibliometrics Minimum Spanning Tree |
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The specific shapes of gender imbalance in scientific authorships : a network approach |
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The specific shapes of gender imbalance in scientific authorships : a network approach |
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The specific shapes of gender imbalance in scientific authorships : a network approach |
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The specific shapes of gender imbalance in scientific authorships : a network approach |
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The specific shapes of gender imbalance in scientific authorships : a network approach |
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Araújo, Tanya |
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Araújo, Tanya Fontainha, Elsa |
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Fontainha, Elsa |
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Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
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Araújo, Tanya Fontainha, Elsa |
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Co-occurrence Networks Gender Research Collaboration Inter-Disciplinarity Bibliometrics Minimum Spanning Tree |
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Co-occurrence Networks Gender Research Collaboration Inter-Disciplinarity Bibliometrics Minimum Spanning Tree |
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Gender differences in collaborative research have received little at- tention when compared with the growing importance that women hold in academia and research. Unsurprisingly, most of bibliomet- ric databases have a strong lack of directly available information by gender. Although empirical-based network approaches are often used in the study of research collaboration, the studies about the influence of gender dissimilarities on the resulting topological outcomes are still scarce. Here, networks of scientific subjects are used to characterize patterns that might be associated to five categories of authorships which were built based on gender. We find enough evidence that gen- der imbalance in scientific authorships brings a peculiar trait to the networks induced from papers published in Web of Science (WoS) in- dexed journals of Economics over the period 2010-2015 and having at least one author affiliated to a Portuguese institution. Our re- sults show the emergence of a specific pattern when the network of co-occurring subjects is induced from a set of papers exclusively au- thored by men. Such a male-exclusive authorship condition is found to be the solely responsible for the emergence that particular shape in the network structure. This peculiar trait might facilitate future network analyses of research collaboration and interdisciplinarity. |
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Araújo, Tanya e Elsa Fontainha .2016. "The specific shapes of gender imbalance in scientific authorships : a network approach". Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão. DE Working papers nº 17-2016/DE/UECE 2183-1815 |
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