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The gender citation gap: Why and how it matters
1Department of Sociology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Summary
Academic women face career progression disadvantages, not research quality issues, leading to fewer citations and contributing to the gender pay gap in science. Addressing career advancement is key to closing these disparities.
Area of Science:
- Bibliometrics
- Gender Studies in Science
- Academic Career Progression
Background:
- Evidence suggests comparable citation rates for articles by men and women.
- This challenges the notion that research quality or gender bias explains citation disparities.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate career progression disadvantages as the root cause of the gender citation gap.
- To analyze the link between the gender citation gap and unequal pay in science.
Main Methods:
- Analysis of two datasets: over 130,000 highly cited scholars (1996-2020) and nearly 2,000 Canadian scholars (2014-2019).
- Examined paper citation data and scholar salary information.
Main Results:
- Papers by women receive more citations on average than those by men.
- The gender citation gap widens with career progression but narrows with research productivity and network size.
- Higher citations correlate with higher pay, with citation gaps explaining a significant portion of the gender wage gap.
Conclusions:
- Gender disparities in career progression are critical factors in the gender citation gap.
- Closing the gender citation gap requires addressing systemic disadvantages in academic career advancement.
- Interventions must focus on career progression to mitigate gender pay inequities in science.
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