{"id":57,"date":"2013-12-11T19:06:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T19:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=57"},"modified":"2013-12-11T19:09:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T19:09:18","slug":"women-under-represented-in-scientific-publications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/women-under-represented-in-scientific-publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Women underrepresented in scientific publications"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_58\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Papers-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58\" alt=\"Scientific publications\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Papers-small.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Papers-small.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Papers-small-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-58\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Men are lead authors on far mor scientific publications than women. (<em>Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxc.hu\/photo\/1127845\" target=\"_blank\">Rodrigo Comisarenco via stock.xchng<\/a><\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A new analysis of thousands of papers published between 2008 and 2012 shows that <strong>women are still underrepresented in authorship of scientific papers<\/strong>. Women account for less 30% of authorships, and articles with women as a dominant author receive fewer citations. The researchers also found that Manitoba, Nova Scotia and Quebec were the Canadian provinces closest to achieving gender parity.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/bibliometrics-global-gender-disparities-in-science-1.14321\" target=\"_blank\">comment article<\/a> published in <em>Nature<\/em> on <strong>December 11, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Names and affiliations of selected authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vincent Larivi\u00e8re, School of Library and Information Sciences, Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al<br \/>\nYves Gingras, professor of history and sociology of science, Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca\/udem-news\/news\/20131211-is-peer-review-systemically-misogynist.html\" target=\"_blank\">Press release<\/a> from\u00a0Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new analysis of thousands of papers published between 2008 and 2012 shows that women are still underrepresented in authorship of scientific papers. Women account for less 30% of authorships, and articles with women as a dominant author receive fewer citations. The researchers also found that Manitoba, Nova Scotia and Quebec were the Canadian provinces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-bibliometrics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Papers-small.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}