Gender Differences in Publication Output: Towards an Unbiased Metric of Research Performance

We examined the publication records of a cohort of 168 life scientists in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology to assess gender differences in research performance. Clear discrepancies in publication rate between men and women appear very early in their careers and this has consequences for...

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Autores principales: Symonds, Matthew R.E., Gemmell, Neil J., Braisher, Tamsin L., Gorringe, Kylie L., Elgar, Mark A.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1762413/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17205131
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000127
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author Symonds, Matthew R.E.
Gemmell, Neil J.
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description We examined the publication records of a cohort of 168 life scientists in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology to assess gender differences in research performance. Clear discrepancies in publication rate between men and women appear very early in their careers and this has consequences for the subsequent citation of their work. We show that a recently proposed index designed to rank scientists fairly is in fact strongly biased against female researchers, and advocate a modified index to assess men and women on a more equitable basis.
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spelling pubmed-17624132007-01-04 Gender Differences in Publication Output: Towards an Unbiased Metric of Research Performance Symonds, Matthew R.E. Gemmell, Neil J. Braisher, Tamsin L. Gorringe, Kylie L. Elgar, Mark A. PLoS One Research Article We examined the publication records of a cohort of 168 life scientists in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology to assess gender differences in research performance. Clear discrepancies in publication rate between men and women appear very early in their careers and this has consequences for the subsequent citation of their work. We show that a recently proposed index designed to rank scientists fairly is in fact strongly biased against female researchers, and advocate a modified index to assess men and women on a more equitable basis. Public Library of Science 2006-12-27 /pmc/articles/PMC1762413/ /pubmed/17205131 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000127 Text en Symonds et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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