Autor según el artículo: 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

Departamento: Enginyeria Química Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques

Autor/es 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

Palabras clave: Scientists - Cooperative behavior Gender Female faculty Scientists- Gender

Resumen: 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.

Grupo de investigación: Science and Engineering of Emergent Systems Algorithms embedded in Physical Systems

Áreas temáticas: Computer engineering Ingeniería informática Enginyeria informàtica

Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 1544-9173

Identificador del 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

Fecha de alta del registro: 2017-01-18

Volumen de revista: 14

Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Enlace a la fuente original: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002573

DOI del artículo: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002573

Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Año de publicación de la revista: 2016

Tipo de publicación: Article Artículo Article