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 attention when compared with the growing importance that women hold in academia and research. Unsurprisingly, most of bibliometric 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 gender imbalance in scientific authorships brings a peculiar trait to the networks induced from papers published in Web of Science (WoS) indexed journals of Economics over the period 2010–2015 and having at least one author affiliated to a Portuguese institution. Our results show the emergence of a specific pattern when the network of co-occurring subjects is induced from a set of papers exclusively authored by men. Such a male-exclusive authorship condition is found to be the solely responsible for the emergence of that particular shape in the network structure. This peculiar trait might facilitate future network analysis of research collaboration and interdisciplinarity. |
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The specific shapes of gender imbalance in scientific authorships: a network approachCo-Occurrence NetworksGenderResearch CollaborationInterdisciplinarityBibliometrics Minimum Spanning TreeGender differences in collaborative research have received little attention when compared with the growing importance that women hold in academia and research. Unsurprisingly, most of bibliometric 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 gender imbalance in scientific authorships brings a peculiar trait to the networks induced from papers published in Web of Science (WoS) indexed journals of Economics over the period 2010–2015 and having at least one author affiliated to a Portuguese institution. Our results show the emergence of a specific pattern when the network of co-occurring subjects is induced from a set of papers exclusively authored by men. Such a male-exclusive authorship condition is found to be the solely responsible for the emergence of that particular shape in the network structure. This peculiar trait might facilitate future network analysis of research collaboration and interdisciplinarity.ElsevierRepositório da Universidade de LisboaAraújo, TanyaFontaínha, Elsa2023-11-20T13:53:52Z20172017-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/29448engAraújo, Tanya and Elsa Fontaínha.(2017). “The specific shapes of gender imbalance in scientific authorships: a network approach”. Journal of Informetrics, Volume 11, Issue 1: pp 88-102. (Search PDF in 2023).1751-1577http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2016.11.002info: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:RCAAP2023-11-26T01:31:51Zoai:www.repository.utl.pt:10400.5/29448Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T23:19:47.521681Repositório 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 Interdisciplinarity 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 Fontaínha, Elsa |
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Fontaínha, Elsa |
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Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
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Araújo, Tanya Fontaínha, Elsa |
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Co-Occurrence Networks Gender Research Collaboration Interdisciplinarity Bibliometrics Minimum Spanning Tree |
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Co-Occurrence Networks Gender Research Collaboration Interdisciplinarity Bibliometrics Minimum Spanning Tree |
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Gender differences in collaborative research have received little attention when compared with the growing importance that women hold in academia and research. Unsurprisingly, most of bibliometric 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 gender imbalance in scientific authorships brings a peculiar trait to the networks induced from papers published in Web of Science (WoS) indexed journals of Economics over the period 2010–2015 and having at least one author affiliated to a Portuguese institution. Our results show the emergence of a specific pattern when the network of co-occurring subjects is induced from a set of papers exclusively authored by men. Such a male-exclusive authorship condition is found to be the solely responsible for the emergence of that particular shape in the network structure. This peculiar trait might facilitate future network analysis of research collaboration and interdisciplinarity. |
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