In the scientific enterprise, the few extremely prolific researchers play an important role : the “superstars” who publishes less in isolated areas, in dying areas, or in areas without inherent dynamics, and more in upcoming, central and dynamic areas. All calculations of data are described in the article.įunding: This study was supported by the European Research Council, grant 610706 and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, grant P12-1302:1.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. These data are publicly available to customers with a subscription to WoS e.g. From the online database we have retrieved all data. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: The raw data file used in this study is based on downloads from Online Web of Science ( ) using the following query (CU=Sweden AND PY=2008-2011 AND DT=(Article OR Letters OR Reviews or Proceedings Papers)). Received: DecemAccepted: AugPublished: August 25, 2017Ĭopyright: © 2017 van den Besselaar, Sandström. PLoS ONE 12(8):Įditor: Pablo Dorta-González, Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria, SPAIN Gender differences in age, authorship position, and academic rank do explain quite a part of the productivity differences.Ĭitation: van den Besselaar P, Sandström U (2017) Vicious circles of gender bias, lower positions, and lower performance: Gender differences in scholarly productivity and impact. We discuss and test several possible explanations of this finding, using a data on personal characteristics from several Swedish universities. As the analysis shows, in order to have impact quantity does make a difference for male and female researchers alike-but women are vastly underrepresented in the group of most productive researchers. The study is based on a disambiguated Swedish author dataset, consisting of 47,000 researchers and their WoS-publications during the period of 2008-2011 with citations until 2015.
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In this paper we try to better understand this phenomenon by (i) comparing the share of male and female researchers within different productivity classes, and (ii) by comparing productivity whereas controlling for a series of relevant covariates. It is often argued that female researchers publish on average less than male researchers do, but male and female authored papers have an equal impact.
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