Author, as appears in the 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
Department: Enginyeria Química Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques
URV's Author/s: 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
Keywords: Scientists - Cooperative behavior Gender Female faculty Scientists- Gender
Abstract: 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.
Research group: Science and Engineering of Emergent Systems Algorithms embedded in Physical Systems
Thematic Areas: Computer engineering Ingeniería informática Enginyeria informàtica
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 1544-9173
Author identifier: 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
Record's date: 2017-01-18
Journal volume: 14
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002573
Article's DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002573
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2016
Publication Type: Article Artículo Article
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