女性是否比男性更多地从事跨学科研究?自我引用偏见是否观察到差异?

IF 4.1 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE
Henrique Pinheiro, M. Durning, David Campbell
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引用次数: 4

摘要

摘要一些研究表明,女性比男性更多地从事跨学科研究,而其他研究则没有显示性别差异。女性自我引用的次数也比男性少,这种差异至少部分是通过职业阶段和先前生产力的差异来调节的。因此,关于跨学科性中基于性别的差异的现有证据可能存在偏见。如果从论文引用文献的学科多样性推断出跨学科性,那么男性自我引用的比例越大,相对于女性,他们衡量的跨学科性可能会降低。这种偏见可能会导致错误的结论,因为在纠正自我引用后,人们可能会发现女性参与跨学科研究的程度与男性持平,甚至更低。鉴于跨学科研究的资金越来越重要,按性别准确衡量跨学科性对资助者来说非常重要,这样他们就可以采取适当行动,为跨性别公平竞争。例如,有证据表明,有时建议女性不要参与跨学科研究,因为这对她们的职业发展有风险。这项研究表明,论文的跨学科性随着女性作者的存在而增加,无论在跨学科性测量中是否考虑自我引用。
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Do women undertake interdisciplinary research more than men, and do self-citations bias observed differences?
Abstract Some studies have shown that women undertake interdisciplinary research more than men, whereas other studies have shown no difference by gender. Women have also been shown to self-cite less often than men, a difference at least partly mediated through differences in career stages and prior productivity. Existing evidence on gender-based differences in interdisciplinarity may therefore be biased. If interdisciplinarity is inferred from the disciplinary diversity of a paper’s cited references, a greater share of self-citations by men could decrease their measured interdisciplinarity relative to women. Such biases could lead to erroneous conclusions, because after correcting for self-citations one might uncover that women participate in interdisciplinary research equally to, or less than, men. Given that funding for interdisciplinary research is gaining in importance, obtaining accurate measurements of interdisciplinarity by gender is highly relevant for funders so that they can take appropriate action(s) in leveling the playing field across gender. For instance, evidence suggests women are sometimes advised not to participate in interdisciplinary research due to the risk it represents for their career progression. This study shows that a paper’s interdisciplinarity increases with the presence of female authors, accounting or not for self-citations in the interdisciplinarity measurement.
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Quantitative Science Studies
Quantitative Science Studies INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-
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