Are female scientists less inclined to publish alone? The gender solo research gap

Kwiek, Marek; Roszka, Wojciech

Are female scientists less inclined to publish alone? The gender solo research gap

dc.contributor.author	Kwiek, Marek
dc.contributor.author	Roszka, Wojciech
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-18T07:51:53Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-18T07:51:53Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.description.abstract	In solo research, scientists compete individually for prestige, sending clear signals about their research ability, avoiding problems in credit allocation, and reducing conflicts about authorship. We examine to what extent male and female scientists differ in their use of solo publishing across various dimensions. This research is the first to comprehensively study the “gender solo research gap” among all internationally visible scientists within a whole national higher education system. We examine the gap through mean “individual solo publishing rates” found in “individual publication portfolios” constructed for each Polish university professor. We use the practical significance/statistical significance difference (based on the effect-size r coefficient) and our analyses indicate that while some gender differences are statistically significant, they have no practical significance. Using a partial effects of fractional logistic regression approach, we estimate the probability of conducting solo research. In none of the models does gender explain the variability of the individual solo publishing rate. The strongest predictor of individual solo publishing rate is the average team size, publishing in STEM fields negatively affects the rate, publishing in male-dominated disciplines positively affects it, and the influence of international collaboration is negative. The gender solo research gap in Poland is much weaker than expected: within a more general trend toward team research and international research, gender differences in solo research are much weaker and less relevant than initially assumed. We use our unique biographical, administrative, publication, and citation database (“Polish Science Observatory”) with metadata on all Polish scientists present in Scopus (N = 25,463) and their 158,743 Scopus-indexed articles published in 2009–2018, including 18,900 solo articles.	pl
dc.identifier.citation	Kwiek, M., Roszka, W. Are female scientists less inclined to publish alone? The gender solo research gap. Scientometrics (2022).	pl
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-022-04308-7
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10593/26769
dc.language.iso	eng	pl
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	pl
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/pl/	*
dc.subject	authorship	pl
dc.subject	solo research	pl
dc.subject	collaboration patterns	pl
dc.subject	sex differences in collaboration	pl
dc.subject	academic careers	pl
dc.subject	sociology of science	pl
dc.subject	quantitative science studies	pl
dc.subject	higher education research	pl
dc.title	Are female scientists less inclined to publish alone? The gender solo research gap	pl
dc.type	Artykuł	pl