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Female-dominated disciplines have lower evaluated research quality and funding success rates, for men and women

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: We use data from 30 countries and find that the more women in a discipline, the lower quality the research in that discipline is evaluated to be and the lower the funding success rate is. This affects men and women, and is robust to age, number of research outputs, and bibliometric measures where such data are available. Our work builds on others’ findings that women’s work is valued less, regardless of who performs that work.

Source: eLife

DOI: 10.7554/elife.97613.3

Authors: Alex James, Franca Buelow, Liam Gibson, Ann Brower

Institutions: University of Canterbury, University of Lincoln

Language: English

Topic: scientometrics and bibliometrics research

Subfield: Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Gender equality, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,500