¿Citan las mujeres investigadoras más a las otras mujeres que a los hombres?
| Main Author: | Dinu, Nicoleta-Roxana |
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| Format: | Journal PeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | es |
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Universidad Privada Dr. Rafael Belloso Chacín
, 2021
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.rclis.org/42660/1/3468-Texto%20del%20art%C3%ADculo-10161-2-10-20210903.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/42660/ |
Daftar Isi:
- The objective of the research presented in this article is to analyze possible citation biases between scientific articles due to the gender of the authors. Various researchers, such as Maliniak, Powers, and Walter (2013); Beaudry and Larivière (2016); Ghiasi et al. (2018); Huang et al. (2019); Potthoff and Zimmermann (2017); and Thelwall (2020), have highlighted the existing gender gap in university careers, and also in scientific publication, a reflection of what happens in society in general. The starting hypothesis of this research is that due to the discrimination they are subjected to, women could react by citing other female authors more. The methodology used has been 1) conducting a bibliographic search on the subject. The search results that express negative situations for women serve as a preamble to the reasoning that is carried out about possible reactions of women to such situations, and the approach of this research, asking us if consciously or out of sensitivity and affinity, women have some tendency to cite the work of their peers more than those of male colleagues. 2) Articles from two complete issues of four journals have been selected, and citations from men to men, men to women, women to women, and women to men have been counted. The results obtained show a difference in behavior according to gender: women are more balanced 40% cite women, and 60% cite men. In contrast, men show more homophilia, sending only 25% of citations to women and 75% to their peers. It is concluded that the gender gap persists and that a detrimental situation continues for women who, by not receiving the deserved accreditation for their work, are unable to reach the higher levels of academic careers.