Gender differences in research performance and its impact on careers: a longitudinal case study.

Autor/inn/en	van den Besselaar, Peter; Sandström, Ulf
Titel	Gender differences in research performance and its impact on careers: a longitudinal case study.
Quelle	In: Scientometrics, (2015) 1, S.143-162 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0138-9130
DOI	10.1007/s11192-015-1775-3
Schlagwörter	Gender bias; Academic careers; Performance differences; Longitudinal study
Abstract	Abstract We take up the issue of performance differences between male and female researchers, and investigate the change of performance differences during the early career. In a previous paper it was shown that among starting researchers gendered performance differences seem small to non-existent (Van Arensbergen et al. 2012). If the differences do not occur in the early career anymore, they may emerge in a later period, or may remain absent. In this paper we use the same sample of male and female researchers, but now compare performance levels about 10 years later. We use various performance indicators: full/fractional counted productivity, citation impact, and relative citation impact in terms of the share of papers in the top 10 % highly cited papers. After the 10 years period, productivity of male researchers has grown faster than of female researcher, but the field normalized (relative) citation impact indicators of male and female researchers remain about equal. Furthermore, performance data do explain to a certain extent why male careers in our sample develop much faster than female researchers’ careers; but controlling for performance differences, we find that gender is an important determinant too. Consequently, the process of hiring academic staff still remains biased.
Erfasst von	OLC
Update	2023/2/05