About this Event
University of Pittsburgh, 4200 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
LTT – David Klinowski
October 3 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT
Title: Voicing disagreement in science: Missing women
Abstract:
This paper examines the authorship of post-publication criticisms in the scientific literature, with a focus on gender differences. Bibliometrics from journals in the natural and social sciences show that comments that criticize or correct a published study are 20-40% less likely than regular papers to have a female author. In preprints in the life sciences, prior to peer review, women are missing by 20-40% in failed replications compared to regular papers, but are not missing in successful replications. In an experiment, I then find large gender differences in willingness to point out and penalize a mistake in someone’s work.
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