Women’s scientific contributions are often undervalued and cited less often than those of their male counterparts in many subjects. Here’s why—and what can be done about it.
identified an additional factor at play: “first-mover advantage.”
These kinds of effects can accumulate over the course of an academic’s career. Among members of the National Academy of Sciences , for example,last month. And the shape and features of the citation networks also varied significantly by gender—women have fewer peers than men and usually have more women as peers, among other differences—to the extent that researchers could determine an individual’s gender based just on the network characteristics.
women were actually up to 15 times more likely to be accepted into NAS and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the past 20 years Some researchers also worry the overemphasis on studying elite groups in science may not represent the full picture. “You’re looking at something exceptional and drawing conclusions for a full population,” Sugimoto says.
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