Gender imbalances among top-cited scientists across scientific disciplines over time through the analysis of nearly 5.8 million authors.

We evaluated how the gender composition of top-cited authors within different subfields of research has evolved over time. We considered 9,071,122 authors with at least 5 full papers in Scopus as of September 1, 2022. Using a previously validated composite citation indicator, we identified the 2% to...

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Main Authors: John P A Ioannidis, Kevin W Boyack, Thomas A Collins, Jeroen Baas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-11-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002385&type=printable