Gender inequities in the online dissemination of scholars’ work
Gender inequities in the online dissemination of scholars’ work
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10.1073/pnas.2102945118
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2021-09
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通讯作者：
Orsolya Vásárhelyi;Igor Zakhlebin;Stasa Milojevic;Emőke-Ágnes Horvát
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作者：
Orsolya Vásárhelyi;Igor Zakhlebin;Stasa Milojevic;Emőke-Ágnes Horvát
意义 先前的工作确立了科学领域广泛的性别不平等。收入、支持和晋升水平上的差异表明，女性的研究并未得到与男性同等的认可。由于可见度的不平衡可能会对引文和奖项产生间接的下游影响，因此对在线成功的研究对于解决性别差距至关重要。在这里，我们表明，女性在网上传播研究成果方面不如男性成功。我们证明，科学影响、社会资本和合着网络中性别关系的形成与男性在研究领域和成功水平上的在线成功有关，但与女性无关。通过向其他科学家和公众展示女性学者的工作，公正的科学传播有可能缓解学术界一些已知的性别差异。然而，我们对性别与在线科学传播之间的关系缺乏全面的了解。我们对 50 万名学者的大规模分析表明，在所有研究领域，女性学者的工作被提及的频率低于男性学者的工作。在探索与在线成功相关的特征时，我们发现先前工作、社会资本和合着网络中性别关系形成的影响与男性的在线成功有关，但对女性则不然——即使在女性代表性最高的领域也是如此。这些结果表明，虽然男性的科学影响力和合作网络与更高的在线知名度相关，但女性的成功并没有普遍可识别的方面。我们全面的实证证据表明，在线科学传播中的性别差距与缺乏对与女性学者成功相关的特征的了解相结合，这可能会阻碍缩小性别差距的努力。
Significance Prior work establishes wide-ranging gender inequities in science. Disparities at the level of earnings, support, and promotion indicate that women’s research is not recognized equally to men’s. Since an imbalance in visibility might have consequential downstream effects on citations and awards, the study of online success is critical to address the gender gap. Here we show that women are less successful than men in disseminating their research online. We demonstrate that scientific impact, social capital, and gendered tie formation in coauthorship networks are associated with the online success of men across research areas and levels of success, but not of women. Unbiased science dissemination has the potential to alleviate some of the known gender disparities in academia by exposing female scholars’ work to other scientists and the public. And yet, we lack comprehensive understanding of the relationship between gender and science dissemination online. Our large-scale analyses, encompassing half a million scholars, revealed that female scholars’ work is mentioned less frequently than male scholars’ work in all research areas. When exploring the characteristics associated with online success, we found that the impact of prior work, social capital, and gendered tie formation in coauthorship networks are linked with online success for men, but not for women—even in the areas with the highest female representation. These results suggest that while men’s scientific impact and collaboration networks are associated with higher visibility online, there are no universally identifiable facets associated with success for women. Our comprehensive empirical evidence indicates that the gender gap in online science dissemination is coupled with a lack of understanding the characteristics that are linked with female scholars’ success, which might hinder efforts to close the gender gap in visibility.