Forty years of gender disparities in Russian science: a historical bibliometric analysis

Adèle Paul-Hus (), Rébecca L. Bouvier (), Chaoqun Ni (), Cassidy R. Sugimoto (), Vladimir Pislyakov () and Vincent Larivière ()
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Adèle Paul-Hus: Université de Montréal
Rébecca L. Bouvier: Université de Montréal
Chaoqun Ni: Indiana University Bloomington
Cassidy R. Sugimoto: Indiana University Bloomington
Vladimir Pislyakov: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Vincent Larivière: Université de Montréal

Scientometrics, 2015, vol. 102, issue 2, No 23, 1553 pages

Abstract: Abstract Gender disparities persist in several areas of society and scientific research is no exception. This study describes the evolution of the place of women in Russian science from 1973 to 2012, in terms of published research output, research productivity, international and national collaboration, and scientific impact, taking into account the socioeconomic, political and historic context of the country, which was marked by the fall of the USSR in 1991. The results show that gender parity is far from being achieved. Women remain underrepresented in terms of their contribution to research output and scientific impact in almost all disciplines, with Mathematics and Physics, research areas in which Russia is specialized, having the largest gap. Men and women show different collaboration patterns on the national and international level, whereas women are preeminent on the national scene, men are on the international one. Although the impact of women’s scientific output significantly increases after the fall of the USSR, the gap between both genders remains stable over time for most of the disciplines. As a result, this increase cannot be interpreted as an improvement of the women’s relative influence in Russian science, but rather an improvement of Russian science impact in general.

Keywords: Gender; Russia; Research productivity; Research impact; Collaboration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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