Is science built on the shoulders of women' A study of gender differences in contributorship

Academic Medicine

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1136-1142

  Macaluso, Benoit ^a   Larivière, Vincent ^a   Sugimoto, Thomas ^b   Sugimoto, Cassidy R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; BIBLIOMETRICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PUBLISHING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCIENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WRITING;

AGE FACTORS; AUTHORSHIP; BIBLIOMETRICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PUBLISHING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCIENCE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84973379929     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001261     Document Type: Article

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