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Same-gender citations do not indicate a substantial gender homophily bias

Can the male citation advantage (more citations for papers written by male than female scientists) be explained by gender homophily bias, i.e., the preference of scientists to cite other scientists of the same gender category? Previous studies report much evidence that this is the case. However, the...

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Autores principales: Tekles, Alexander, Auspurg, Katrin, Bornmann, Lutz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9488760/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36126090
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274810
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description Can the male citation advantage (more citations for papers written by male than female scientists) be explained by gender homophily bias, i.e., the preference of scientists to cite other scientists of the same gender category? Previous studies report much evidence that this is the case. However, the observed gender homophily bias may be overestimated by overlooking structural aspects such as the gender composition of research topics in which scientists specialize. When controlling for research topics at a high level of granularity, there is only little evidence for a gender homophily bias in citation decisions. Our study points out the importance of controlling structural aspects such as gendered specialization in research topics when investigating gender bias in science.
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spelling pubmed-94887602022-09-21 Same-gender citations do not indicate a substantial gender homophily bias Tekles, Alexander Auspurg, Katrin Bornmann, Lutz PLoS One Research Article Can the male citation advantage (more citations for papers written by male than female scientists) be explained by gender homophily bias, i.e., the preference of scientists to cite other scientists of the same gender category? Previous studies report much evidence that this is the case. However, the observed gender homophily bias may be overestimated by overlooking structural aspects such as the gender composition of research topics in which scientists specialize. When controlling for research topics at a high level of granularity, there is only little evidence for a gender homophily bias in citation decisions. Our study points out the importance of controlling structural aspects such as gendered specialization in research topics when investigating gender bias in science. Public Library of Science 2022-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9488760/ /pubmed/36126090 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274810 Text en © 2022 Tekles et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Same-gender citations do not indicate a substantial gender homophily bias
title_sort same-gender citations do not indicate a substantial gender homophily bias
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9488760/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36126090
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274810
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