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Are all researchers male? Gender misattributions in citations

I screen academic literature for cases of misattribution of cited author’s gender. While such mistakes are overall not common, their frequency depends dramatically on the gender of the cited author. Female scholar are cited as if they were male more than ten times more often than the opposite happen...

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Autor principal: Krawczyk, Michał
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5311080/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28255187
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-2192-y
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description I screen academic literature for cases of misattribution of cited author’s gender. While such mistakes are overall not common, their frequency depends dramatically on the gender of the cited author. Female scholar are cited as if they were male more than ten times more often than the opposite happens, probably revealing that citers are influenced by the gender-science stereotype. The gender of the citing author and the field of study appear to have only limited effect.
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spelling pubmed-53110802017-02-28 Are all researchers male? Gender misattributions in citations Krawczyk, Michał Scientometrics Article I screen academic literature for cases of misattribution of cited author’s gender. While such mistakes are overall not common, their frequency depends dramatically on the gender of the cited author. Female scholar are cited as if they were male more than ten times more often than the opposite happens, probably revealing that citers are influenced by the gender-science stereotype. The gender of the citing author and the field of study appear to have only limited effect. Springer Netherlands 2016-12-30 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5311080/ /pubmed/28255187 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-2192-y Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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title_full_unstemmed Are all researchers male? Gender misattributions in citations
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5311080/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28255187
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-2192-y
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