TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender gaps in Australian research publishing, citation and co-authorship
AU - Jamali, Hamid R.
AU - Abbasi, Alireza
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Dimensions for their support in obtaining the bibliographic and citation data.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s).
PY - 2023/5
Y1 - 2023/5
N2 - Despite improvement in gender inequality in Australian science, the problem has not been fully addressed yet. To better understand the nature of gender inequality in Australian science, all gendered Australian first authored articles published between 2010 and 2020 and indexed in the Dimensions database were analysed. Field of Research (FoR) was used as the subject classification of articles and Field Citation Ratio (FCR) was used for citation comparison. Overall, the ratio of female to male first authored articles increased over the years, and this was true for all FoRs except for information and computing sciences. The ratio of single-authored articles by females was also improved over the study period. Females appeared to have a citation advantage, using Field Citation Ratio, over males in a few FoRs including mathematical sciences, chemical sciences, technology, built environment and design, studies in human society, law and legal studies, and studies in creative arts and writing. The average FCR for female first authored articles was greater than the average FCR for male first authored articles, including in a few fields such mathematical sciences where male authors outperformed females in terms of the number of articles.
AB - Despite improvement in gender inequality in Australian science, the problem has not been fully addressed yet. To better understand the nature of gender inequality in Australian science, all gendered Australian first authored articles published between 2010 and 2020 and indexed in the Dimensions database were analysed. Field of Research (FoR) was used as the subject classification of articles and Field Citation Ratio (FCR) was used for citation comparison. Overall, the ratio of female to male first authored articles increased over the years, and this was true for all FoRs except for information and computing sciences. The ratio of single-authored articles by females was also improved over the study period. Females appeared to have a citation advantage, using Field Citation Ratio, over males in a few FoRs including mathematical sciences, chemical sciences, technology, built environment and design, studies in human society, law and legal studies, and studies in creative arts and writing. The average FCR for female first authored articles was greater than the average FCR for male first authored articles, including in a few fields such mathematical sciences where male authors outperformed females in terms of the number of articles.
KW - Australian science
KW - Co-authorship
KW - Disciplinary differences
KW - Field Citation Ratio (FCR)
KW - Field of Research (FoR)
KW - Gender disparities
KW - Scientific publishing
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U2 - 10.1007/s11192-023-04685-7
DO - 10.1007/s11192-023-04685-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 37101972
AN - SCOPUS:85150434662
SN - 0138-9130
VL - 128
SP - 2879
EP - 2893
JO - Scientometrics
JF - Scientometrics
IS - 5
ER -