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

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    Identificador: PC:2486
    Autores:
    Jordi DuchXiao Han T. ZengMarta Sales-PardoJoão A. G. MoreiraFilippo RadicchiHaroldo V. RibeiroTeresa K. WoodruffLuis A. Nunes Amaral
    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.
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    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
    URL Documento de licencia: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    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
  • Palabras clave:

    Investigadors -- Diferències entre sexes
    Investigadors -- Cooperació internacional
    Scientists - Cooperative behavior
    Gender
    Female faculty
    Scientists- Gender
    Computer engineering
    Ingeniería informática
    Enginyeria informàtica
    1544-9173
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