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