Vicious circles of gender bias, lower positions, and lower performance: Gender differences in scholarly productivity and impact.

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. In this paper we try to better understand this phenomenon by (i) comparing the share of male and female researchers within different productivity cla...

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Main Authors: Peter van den Besselaar, Ulf Sandström
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5571952?pdf=render