Are all researchers male? Gender misattributions in citations

Michal Krawczyk

No 2016-05, Working Papers from Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw

Abstract: In this project I screen academic literature for cases of misattribution of cited author's gender. In English-language scientific publications such mistakes are found to be rare, partly because there is typically no need to attribute gender in the first place. By contrast, in master theses and doctoral dissertations (in social sciences) written in the Polish language, which typically requires gender attribution, more than 20% of female scholars are incorrectly cited as if they were men. In all my samples, mistakes involving males being cited as if they were women are dramatically less frequent, suggesting that gender misattributions are strongly shaped by the gender-science stereotype. The gender of the citing author and the field of study appear to have only limited effect.

Keywords: citations; gender-science stereotype (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A14 B54 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2016
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