Differences in publication behaviour between female and male scientists. Bibliometric analysis of longitudinal data from 1980 to 2005 with regard to gender differences in productivity and involvement, collaboration and citation impact

Donner, Paul Differences in publication behaviour between female and male scientists. Bibliometric analysis of longitudinal data from 1980 to 2005 with regard to gender differences in productivity and involvement, collaboration and citation impact., 2012 Master of Arts thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. [Thesis]

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English abstract

The topic of this thesis are differences in publication behaviour between female and male scientists. It is possible to assign a gender to a person based on their given name, and in some countries, in whose languages surnames are also inflected by gender, also based on their surname. For said countries, both methods are compared and evaluated. By way of the surname form method, gender is assigned to the names of authors or scientific publication of a number of countries and the groups of female and male authors are compared for the period of 1980 to 2010 in regards to productivity and involvement, cooperation and citation impact. Suitable metrics for these categories are introduced. Each countriy’s results are discussed and subsequently all countries are compared.

German abstract

Der Gegenstand dieser Abhandlung sind Unterschiede im Publikationsverhalten zwischen Wissenschaftlern weiblichen und männlichen Geschlechts. Eine Bestim-mung des Geschlechtes einer Person ist in vielen Fällen über ihren Vornamen, in einigen Ländern, in deren Sprachen auch Nachnamen nach dem grammatikalischen Geschlecht gebeugt werden, auch über ihren Nachnamen, möglich. Für diese Länder werden die beiden genannten Methoden miteinander verglichen und bewertet. Mit-tels der Geschlechtserkennung über die Nachnamensform werden für eine Reihe von Ländern den Autoren wissenschaftlicher Artikel das Geschlecht zugeordnet und die Gruppen männlicher und weiblicher Autoren eines jeden Landes über den Zeitraum 1980 bis 2010 miteinander verglichen hinsichtlich der Produktivität, der Beteiligung, Maßen der Kooperation und des Zitationserfolges. Geeignete Maße für diese Kate-gorien werden vorgestellt. Die Resultate der einzelnen Länder werden diskutiert und alle Länder im Anschluss miteinander verglichen.

Item type: Thesis (UNSPECIFIED)
Keywords: bibliometrics, scientometrics, citation impact, scientific publication, collaboration, sex differences
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods
Depositing user: Paul Donner
Date deposited: 26 Jun 2013 06:55
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:26
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/19542

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