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dc.contributor.authorThelwall, Mike
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-03T14:32:31Z
dc.date.available2018-10-03T14:32:31Z
dc.date.issued2018-09-01
dc.identifier.citationThelwall, M. (2018), Do females create higher impact research? Scopus citations and Mendeley readers for articles from five countries, Journal of Informettics, 12(4) November 2018, Pages 1031-1041
dc.identifier.issn1751-1577
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.joi.2018.08.005
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/621736
dc.description.abstractThere are known gender imbalances in participation in scientific fields, from female dominance of nursing to male dominance of mathematics. It is not clear whether there is also a citation imbalance, with some claiming that male-authored research tends to be more cited. No previous study has assessed gender differences in the readers of academic research on a large scale, however. In response, this article assesses whether there are gender differences in the average citations and/or Mendeley readers of academic publications. Field normalised logged Scopus citations and Mendeley readers from mid-2018 for articles published in 2014 were investigated for articles with first authors from India, Spain, Turkey, the UK and the USA in up to 251 fields with at least 50 male and female authors. Although female-authored research is less cited in Turkey (−4.0%) and India (−3.6%), it is marginally more cited in Spain (0.4%), the UK (0.4%), and the USA (0.2%). Female-authored research has fewer Mendeley readers in India (−1.1%) but more in Spain (1.4%), Turkey (1.1%), the UK (2.7%) and the USA (3.0%). Thus, whilst there may be little practical gender difference in citation impact in countries with mature science systems, the higher female readership impact suggests a wider audience for female-authored research. The results also show that the conclusions from a gender analysis depend on the field normalisation method. A theoretically informed decision must therefore be made about which normalisation to use. The results also suggest that arithmetic mean-based field normalisation is favourable to males.
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dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S175115771830258X
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectCitation analysis
dc.subjectAltmetrics
dc.subjectMendeley
dc.subjectMNCS
dc.subjectMNLCS
dc.titleDo females create higher impact research? Scopus citations and Mendeley readers for articles from five countries
dc.typeJournal article
dc.identifier.journalJournal of Informetrics
dc.date.accepted2018-08-09
rioxxterms.funderUniversity of Wolverhampton
rioxxterms.identifier.projectUOW11092018MT
rioxxterms.versionAM
rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2019-09-01
dc.source.volume12
dc.source.issue4
dc.source.beginpage1031
dc.source.endpage1041
refterms.dateFCD2018-09-11T10:04:46Z
refterms.versionFCDAM
refterms.dateFOA2018-09-01T00:00:00Z


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