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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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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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author | Tekles, Alexander Auspurg, Katrin Bornmann, Lutz |
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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. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Tekles, Alexander Auspurg, Katrin Bornmann, Lutz Same-gender citations do not indicate a substantial gender homophily bias |
title | Same-gender citations do not indicate a substantial gender homophily bias |
title_full | Same-gender citations do not indicate a substantial gender homophily bias |
title_fullStr | Same-gender citations do not indicate a substantial gender homophily bias |
title_full_unstemmed | Same-gender citations do not indicate a substantial gender homophily bias |
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 |
topic | Research Article |
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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