Gender issues in fundamental physics: Strumia's bibliometric analysis fails to account for key confounders and confuses correlation with causation
Gender issues in fundamental physics: Strumia's bibliometric analysis fails to account for key confounders and confuses correlation with causation
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基础物理学中的性别问题:斯特鲁米亚的文献计量分析未能解释关键的混杂因素,并混淆了相关性与因果关系
DOI:
10.1162/qss_a_00117
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
6.4
通讯作者:
Ball P
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Ball P
Alessandro Strumia recently published a survey of gender differences in publications and citations in high-energy physics (HEP). In addition to providing full access to the data, code, and methodology, Strumia (2021) systematically describes and accounts for gender differences in HEP citation networks. His analysis points both to ongoing difficulties in attracting women to HEP and an encouraging—though slow—trend in improvement.Unfortunately, however, the time and effort that Strumia (2021) devoted to collating and quantifying the data are not matched by a similar rigor in interpreting the results. To support his conclusions, he selectively cites available literature and fails to adequately adjust for a range of confounding factors. For example, his analyses do not consider how unobserved factors—for example, a tendency to overcite well-known authors—drive a wedge between quality and citations and correlate with author gender. He also fails to take into account many structural and nonstructural factors—including, but not limited to, direct discrimination and the expectations that women form (and actions they take) in response to it—that undoubtedly lead to gender differences in productivity.
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影响因子:
15.8
作者:
Burns, Karen E. A.;Straus, Sharon E.;Guyatt, Gordon
通讯作者:
Guyatt, Gordon
DOI:
10.3847/25c2cfeb.3dda24c5
发表时间:
2020
期刊:
Bulletin of the AAS
影响因子:
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通讯作者:
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DOI:
10.1162/qss_a_00114
发表时间:
2019-10
期刊:
Quant. Sci. Stud.
影响因子:
--
作者:
A. Strumia
通讯作者:
A. Strumia
DOI:
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发表时间:
2017
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影响因子:
--
作者:
B. Casad;P. Hale;F. L. Wachs
通讯作者:
F. L. Wachs
影响因子:
3.1
作者:
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通讯作者:
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