Inhalt: "Satisfactory and robust explanations of sex differences in scientific productivity
remain elusive. This article provides a multidimensional, longitudinal description
of the productivity of male and female biochemists. Several findings have implications
for explaining differences in productivity. Sex differences in the numbers of publications
and citations increase during the first decade of the career but are reversed later
in the career. The lower productivity of females results from their overrepresentation
among nonpublishers and their underrepresentation among the extremely productive.
Among biochemists who publish, differences cannot be explained by patterns of collaboration,
which are nearly identical for males and females, with one exception: females are
much more likely to collaborate with a spouse. The smaller number of citations received
by females results from their fewer publications, not from the quality of their publications.
Papers by females on average receive more citations than those by males. These and
other findings suggest future directions for research to understand sex differences
in scientific productivity." (author's abstract)|
Schlagwörter:Wissenschaftlerin; Akademikerin; Hochschulwesen; Geschlechtervergleich; Produktivität
CEWS Kategorie:Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz