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Is science built on the shoulders of women? : a study of gender differences in contributorship
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2016-08)
Purpose: Women remain underrepresented in the production of scientific literature and
relatively little is known regarding the labor roles played by women in the production of
knowledge. This research examines these labor ...
Tweets vs. Mendeley readers : how do these two social media metrics differ?
(Oldenbourg Verlag, 2014)
A set of 1.4 million biomedical papers was analyzed with regards to how often articles are
mentioned on Twitter or saved by users on Mendeley. While Twitter is a microblogging
platform used by a general audience to ...
From art to science : a bibliometric analysis of architectural scholarly production from 1980 to 2015
(Public Library of Science, 2022-11-03)
According to recent literature on “architecture” as a discipline, practical knowledge relevant
to its process of making has decreased in importance in favor of a more academic approach.
Using data derived from Ulrich’s ...
Who are the acknowledgees? An analysis of gender and academic status
(MIT Press, 2020-06-01)
Acknowledgements found in scholarly papers allow for credit attribution of nonauthor contributors. As such, they are associated with a different kind of recognition than authorship. While several studies have shown that ...
Uncited papers are not useless
(MIT Press, 2021)
We study the citation dynamics of the papers published in three scientific disciplines (Physics,
Economics, and Mathematics) and four broad scientific categories (Medical, Natural, Social
Sciences, and Arts & Humanities). ...
Exploring the interdisciplinarity patterns of highly cited papers
(Elsevier, 2020-12-31)
This study explores the relationship between interdisciplinarity and the citation impact of highly cited papers. In this paper, interdisciplinarity is investigated by comparing the dimensions of disciplinary diversity ...
Task specialization across research careers
(eLife Sciences Publications, 2020-10-28)
Research careers are typically envisioned as a single path in which a scientist starts as a member of a team working under the guidance of one or more experienced scientists and, if they are successful, ends with the ...
The gendered nature of authorship
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2021-09-01)
Authorship is the primary form of symbolic capital in science. Despite this, authorship is rife with injustice and
malpractice, with women expressing concerns regarding the fair attribution of credit. Based on an ...
Researchers’ perceptions of ethical authorship distribution in collaborative research teams
(Springer, 2020-08)
Authorship is commonly used as the basis for the measurement of research productivity. It influences career progression and rewards, making it a valued commodity in a competitive scientific environment. To better understand ...
Investigating the division of scientific labor using the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT)
(MIT Press, 2020)
Contributorship statements were introduced by scholarly journals in the late 1990s to provide
more details on the specific contributions made by authors to research papers. After more than a
decade of idiosyncratic ...