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Differences in Collaboration Patterns across Discipline, Career Stage, and Gender

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    Identificador: PC:2486
    Autors:
    Jordi DuchXiao Han T. ZengMarta Sales-PardoJoão A. G. MoreiraFilippo RadicchiHaroldo V. RibeiroTeresa K. WoodruffLuis A. Nunes Amaral
    Resum:
    Collaboration plays an increasingly important role in promoting research productivity and impact. What remains unclear is whether female and male researchers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) disciplines differ in their collaboration propensity. Here, we report on an empirical analysis of the complete publication records of 3,980 faculty members in six STEM disciplines at select U.S. research universities. We find that female faculty have significantly fewer distinct co-authors over their careers than males, but that this difference can be fully accounted for by females’ lower publication rate and shorter career lengths. Next, we find that female scientists have a lower probability of repeating previous co-authors than males, an intriguing result because prior research shows that teams involving new collaborations produce work with higher impact. Finally, we find evidence for gender segregation in some sub-disciplines in molecular biology, in particular in genomics where we find female faculty to be clearly under-represented.
  • Altres:

    Autor segons l'article: Jordi Duch; Xiao Han T. Zeng; Marta Sales-Pardo; João A. G. Moreira; Filippo Radicchi; Haroldo V. Ribeiro; Teresa K. Woodruff; Luis A. Nunes Amaral
    Departament: Enginyeria Química Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques
    Autor/s de la URV: DUCH GAVALDÀ, JORDI; Xiao Han T. Zeng; SALES PARDO, MARTA; João A. G. Moreira; Filippo Radicchi; Haroldo V. Ribeiro; Teresa K. Woodruff; Luis A. Nunes Amaral
    Paraules clau: Scientists - Cooperative behavior Gender Female faculty Scientists- Gender
    Resum: Collaboration plays an increasingly important role in promoting research productivity and impact. What remains unclear is whether female and male researchers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) disciplines differ in their collaboration propensity. Here, we report on an empirical analysis of the complete publication records of 3,980 faculty members in six STEM disciplines at select U.S. research universities. We find that female faculty have significantly fewer distinct co-authors over their careers than males, but that this difference can be fully accounted for by females’ lower publication rate and shorter career lengths. Next, we find that female scientists have a lower probability of repeating previous co-authors than males, an intriguing result because prior research shows that teams involving new collaborations produce work with higher impact. Finally, we find evidence for gender segregation in some sub-disciplines in molecular biology, in particular in genomics where we find female faculty to be clearly under-represented.
    Grup de recerca: Science and Engineering of Emergent Systems Algorithms embedded in Physical Systems
    Àrees temàtiques: Computer engineering Ingeniería informática Enginyeria informàtica
    Accès a la llicència d'ús: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    ISSN: 1544-9173
    Identificador de l'autor: 0000-0003-2639-6333; 0000-0001-8771-9314; 0000-0002-8140-6525; n/a; 0000-0002-8352-1287; n/a; n/a; 0000-0002-3762-789X
    Data d'alta del registre: 2017-01-18
    Volum de revista: 14
    Versió de l'article dipositat: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Enllaç font original: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002573
    URL Document de llicència: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    DOI de l'article: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002573
    Entitat: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Any de publicació de la revista: 2016
    Tipus de publicació: Article Artículo Article
  • Paraules clau:

    Investigadors -- Diferències entre sexes
    Investigadors -- Cooperació internacional
    Scientists - Cooperative behavior
    Gender
    Female faculty
    Scientists- Gender
    Computer engineering
    Ingeniería informática
    Enginyeria informàtica
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