Gender differences in scientific collaborations: Women are more egalitarian than men.
By analyzing a unique dataset of more than 270,000 scientists, we discovered substantial gender differences in scientific collaborations. While men are more likely to collaborate with other men, women are more egalitarian. This is consistently observed over all fields and regardless of the number of...
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| author | Eduardo B Araújo Nuno A M Araújo André A Moreira Hans J Herrmann José S Andrade |
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| description | By analyzing a unique dataset of more than 270,000 scientists, we discovered substantial gender differences in scientific collaborations. While men are more likely to collaborate with other men, women are more egalitarian. This is consistently observed over all fields and regardless of the number of collaborators a scientist has. The only exception is observed in the field of engineering, where this gender bias disappears with increasing number of collaborators. We also found that the distribution of the number of collaborators follows a truncated power law with a cut-off that is gender dependent and related to the gender differences in the number of published papers. Considering interdisciplinary research, our analysis shows that men and women behave similarly across fields, except in the case of natural sciences, where women with many collaborators are more likely to have collaborators from other fields. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-316aee13ff054f80a7eb9878e2b484e32022-12-21T19:40:16ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032017-01-01125e017679110.1371/journal.pone.0176791Gender differences in scientific collaborations: Women are more egalitarian than men.Eduardo B AraújoNuno A M AraújoAndré A MoreiraHans J HerrmannJosé S AndradeBy analyzing a unique dataset of more than 270,000 scientists, we discovered substantial gender differences in scientific collaborations. While men are more likely to collaborate with other men, women are more egalitarian. This is consistently observed over all fields and regardless of the number of collaborators a scientist has. The only exception is observed in the field of engineering, where this gender bias disappears with increasing number of collaborators. We also found that the distribution of the number of collaborators follows a truncated power law with a cut-off that is gender dependent and related to the gender differences in the number of published papers. Considering interdisciplinary research, our analysis shows that men and women behave similarly across fields, except in the case of natural sciences, where women with many collaborators are more likely to have collaborators from other fields.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5425184?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Eduardo B Araújo Nuno A M Araújo André A Moreira Hans J Herrmann José S Andrade Gender differences in scientific collaborations: Women are more egalitarian than men. PLoS ONE |
| title | Gender differences in scientific collaborations: Women are more egalitarian than men. |
| title_full | Gender differences in scientific collaborations: Women are more egalitarian than men. |
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| title_short | Gender differences in scientific collaborations: Women are more egalitarian than men. |
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