Gender issues in fundamental physics: Strumia's bibliometric analysis fails to account for key confounders and confuses correlation with causation
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Journal Article
Abstract
Alessandro Strumia recently published a survey of gender differences in publications and citations in high-energy physics (HEP). In addition to providing full access to the data, code, and methodology, Strumia (2020) systematically describes and accounts for gender differences in HEP citation networks. His analysis points both to ongoing difficulties in attracting women to high-energy physics and an encouraging—though slow—trend in improvement.
Date Issued
2021
Date Acceptance
2020-03-25
Citation
Quantitative Science Studies, 2021, 2 (1), pp.1-10
ISSN
2641-3337
Publisher
MIT Press
Start Page
1
End Page
10
Journal / Book Title
Quantitative Science Studies
Volume
2
Issue
1
Copyright Statement
© 2021 Philip Ball, T.
Benjamin Britton, Erin Hengel, Philip
Moriarty, Rachel A. Oliver, Gina
Rippon, Angela Saini, and Jessica
Wade. Published under a Creative
Commons Attribution 4.0 International
(CC BY 4.0) license.
Benjamin Britton, Erin Hengel, Philip
Moriarty, Rachel A. Oliver, Gina
Rippon, Angela Saini, and Jessica
Wade. Published under a Creative
Commons Attribution 4.0 International
(CC BY 4.0) license.
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Sponsor
Royal Academy Of Engineering
Identifier
https://direct.mit.edu/qss/article/2/1/263/99125/Gender-issues-in-fundamental-physics-Strumia-s
Grant Number
RF/129
Subjects
physics.soc-ph
physics.soc-ph
cs.DL
cs.SI
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2021