Quantitative evaluation of gender bias in astronomical publications from citation counts
Quantitative evaluation of gender bias in astronomical publications from citation counts
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DOI：
10.1038/s41550-017-0141
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发表时间：
2017-06-01
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影响因子：
14.1
通讯作者：
Birrer, Simon
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作者：
Caplar, Neven;Tacchella, Sandro;Birrer, Simon
不同研究领域的大量研究表明，男性和女性裁判员对男性所做工作的评分始终高于女性所做的相同工作（1-3）。此外，妇女在著名的出版物和作者职位上的代表性不足（4、5），妇女获得的引用也比男性少10%（6、7）。在天文学中，类似的偏差已经在会议参与（8，9）和望远镜提案的成功率（10，11）中进行了测量。尽管授予妇女的博士学位数量不断增加，但妇女在教师职位上的代表性仍然不足（12）。在这些发现的刺激下，我们测量了性别在天文学论文引用数量中的作用。为了解释男性和女性撰写的论文的属性本质上不同的事实，我们使用随机森林算法来控制这些论文的非性别特定属性。在这里，我们发现，由女性撰写的论文比男性撰写的具有相同非性别特定属性的论文的引用次数少10.4 +/- 0.9%。
Numerous studies across different research fields have shown that both male and female referees consistently give higher scores to work done by men than to identical work done by women(1-3). In addition, women are under-represented in prestigious publications and authorship positions(4,5) and women receive similar to 10% fewer citations(6,7). In astronomy, similar biases have been measured in conference participation(8,9) and success rates for telescope proposals(10,11). Even though the number of doctorate degrees awarded to women is constantly increasing, women still tend to be under-represented in faculty positions(12). Spurred by these findings, we measure the role of gender in the number of citations that papers receive in astronomy. To account for the fact that the properties of papers written by men and women differ intrinsically, we use a random forest algorithm to control for the non-gender-specific properties of these papers. Here we show that papers authored by women receive 10.4 +/- 0.9% fewer citations than would be expected if the papers with the same non-gender-specific properties were written by men.