Journal
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 119, Issue 40, Pages -Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2206070119
Keywords
gender; bibliometrics; science of science; gender disparities
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- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency [W911NF192027]
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-17-1-0327]
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There are gender disparities in peer citation patterns, strong enough to accurately predict a scholar's gender, and a scholar's gender plays a role in the mechanisms of success in science.
Diversity in science is necessary to improve innovation and increase the capacity of the scientific workforce. Despite decades-long efforts to increase gender diversity, however, women remain a small minority in many fields, especially in senior positions. The dearth of elite women scientists, in turn, leaves fewer women to serve as mentors and role models for young women scientists. To shed light on gender disparities in science, we study prominent scholars who were elected to the National Academy of Sciences. We construct author citation networks that capture the structure of recognition among scholars' peers. We identify gender disparities in the patterns of peer citations and show that these differences are strong enough to accurately predict the scholar's gender. In contrast, we do not observe disparities due to prestige, with few significant differences in the structure of citations of scholars affiliated with high-ranked and low-ranked institutions. These results provide further evidence that a scholar's gender plays a role in the mechanisms of success in science.
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