Men and Women Survivors in Science: A Comprehensive Analysis
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| author | Kwiek, Marek Szymula, Lukasz |
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| contents | We followed scientists who started publishing in 2000 and who continued publishing until 2020-2023 (N = 41,424). These survivors in science authored 2 million articles (N = 2,089,097) with more than 70 million cited references (N = 73,118,395) and worked in 38 OECD countries. Using a raw Scopus dataset, we examined gender disparities in publishing intensity, international collaboration, journal selection, productivity, citations, team formation, and publishing breaks in 16 STEMM and social science disciplines. Several author-level metrics were computed. Our data show a gender productivity gap for both lifetime scholarly output and annual journal prestige-normalized productivity. Surprisingly, in the context of extant literature, the data do not show a gender international collaboration gap, a gender journal selection gap, a gender citation gap, or a gender team formation gap. Men were on average 23% more productive than women cumulatively in 2000-2023 and 19% more productive in the last 5 years studied (2019-2023). Men and women published in equally prestigious journals, received the same number of citations (field-normalized), and worked in equally sized teams. In all, 80% of scientists in STEMM disciplines and 70% in the social sciences had published every year. Our data indicate interesting disciplinary differences in gender disparities. |
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| spellingShingle | Men and Women Survivors in Science: A Comprehensive Analysis Kwiek, Marek Szymula, Lukasz Digital Libraries We followed scientists who started publishing in 2000 and who continued publishing until 2020-2023 (N = 41,424). These survivors in science authored 2 million articles (N = 2,089,097) with more than 70 million cited references (N = 73,118,395) and worked in 38 OECD countries. Using a raw Scopus dataset, we examined gender disparities in publishing intensity, international collaboration, journal selection, productivity, citations, team formation, and publishing breaks in 16 STEMM and social science disciplines. Several author-level metrics were computed. Our data show a gender productivity gap for both lifetime scholarly output and annual journal prestige-normalized productivity. Surprisingly, in the context of extant literature, the data do not show a gender international collaboration gap, a gender journal selection gap, a gender citation gap, or a gender team formation gap. Men were on average 23% more productive than women cumulatively in 2000-2023 and 19% more productive in the last 5 years studied (2019-2023). Men and women published in equally prestigious journals, received the same number of citations (field-normalized), and worked in equally sized teams. In all, 80% of scientists in STEMM disciplines and 70% in the social sciences had published every year. Our data indicate interesting disciplinary differences in gender disparities. |
| title | Men and Women Survivors in Science: A Comprehensive Analysis |
| topic | Digital Libraries |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.22140 |