The Role of Gender in Scholarly Authorship

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  West, Jevin D ^a   Jacquet, Jennifer ^b   King, Molly M ^c   Correll, Shelley J ^c   Bergstrom, Carl T ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTHOR; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; FEMALE; FUNDING; GENDER BIAS; HUMAN; HUMANITIES; MALE; NATURAL SCIENCE; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLISHING; SCHOLARLY AUTHORSHIP; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIOLOGY; TREND STUDY; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; HUMANS; PUBLICATIONS; SEX FACTORS; SEXISM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84880693349     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066212     Document Type: Article

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