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@petersuber@fediscience.org · 2 months ago

Update. In the field of oil pollution research, "female authors accounted for about 32% of the total authors…were significantly underrepresented in most of the African countries [and in] the UK and Norway…Gender variation in oil pollution publications was discovered to be influenced by religion in Africa; Islam had the mean highest rank when compared with Christianity."
https://doi.org/10.4314/jasem.v29i11.22

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The Variation in Authorship between Male and Female Researchers in Oil Pollution Publications in Ten (10) Countries

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@petersuber@fediscience.org · 2 months ago

Update. "We conduct a comprehensive comparison between peer-review scores and citation-based metrics across various scientific fields [in Italy]…While both evaluation methods exhibit sex bias, peer review systematically penalizes women more severely than citation-based metrics."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157725001245

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Sex bias in peer review and citation practices: Implications for research evaluation

This study examines the effectiveness of peer review versus bibliometric analysis in reducing sex bias in research evaluations. Drawing on theoretical…

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@petersuber@fediscience.org · last month

Update. A letter to the editor about a study I posted to this thread 11/23/25: "The suggestion that [the lower #retraction rate for women] is because male researchers undergo more scrutiny, propose bolder ideas and lead larger and more dynamic teams than do female researchers implies that male scientists are better at science. As female scientists, our lived experience points to alternative explanations: elevated rigour and scientific integrity by female scientists or more critical peer review of female-led manuscripts."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00120-y
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@petersuber@fediscience.org · last month

Update. "By analyzing all articles indexed in the PubMed database (>36.5 million articles published in >36,000 biomedical and life sciences journals), we show that the median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles."
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003574

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Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review

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@petersuber@fediscience.org · 2 weeks ago

Update. "Citation counts [for female authors] are on average 5.5% lower than those of comparable male authors…Papers produced by all-female teams receive 56.7% fewer citations than those by all-male teams, while mixed-gender teams achieve a 30.9% citation advantage."
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4155/paper10.pdf

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@petersuber@fediscience.org · 3 days ago

Update. Many studies look at the acceptance rate for articles by women at high-impact journals. This one looks at the submission rate, and finds that women submit significantly fewer articles to these journals than men. (The percentages differ by field.) When asked why, the most common response was that "they were advised not to."
https://elifesciences.org/articles/90049

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Gender differences in submission behavior exacerbate publication disparities in elite journals

Gender differences in submission behavior, driven by self-perceptions of novelty and peer discouragement, limit women’s representation in high-impact journals and, in turn, their scientific visibility and career advancement.