Berlin 2024 – wissenschaftliches Programm
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SYDE: Symposium Diversity and Equality in Physics
SYDE 1: Diversity and Equality in Physics
SYDE 1.3: Hauptvortrag
Dienstag, 19. März 2024, 10:30–11:00, PTB HS HvHB
Citation inequity and gendered citation practices in contemporary physics — •Erin Teich1, Jason Kim2, Christopher Lynn3, Samantha Simon4, Andrei Klishin5, Karol Szymula6, Pragya Srivastava7, Lee Bassett4, Perry Zurn8, Jordan Dworkin9, and Dani Bassett4 — 1Wellesley College — 2Cornell University — 3Yale University — 4University of Pennsylvania — 5University of Washington — 6University of Rochester — 7NemaLife — 8American University — 9Federation of American Scientists
The under-attribution of women's contributions to scientific scholarship is well-known and well-studied, and its effects are felt today in numerous ways by women scientists, including lower interest in collaboration and lower perception of academic excellence. Yet another crucial metric of under-attribution within scientific scholarship is the under-citation of papers authored by women relative to expected rates, and the corresponding over-citation of papers authored by men. This citation "gap" has been quantified in fields ranging from international relations to astronomy. Here, we quantify the citation gap in contemporary physics by analyzing over one million articles published over the last 25 years in 35 physics journals, and we also find that citation imbalance varies according to who is citing, where they are citing, and what they are citing. Thus, we demonstrate that although citation behavior is a personal action, it adheres to certain trends at the population level, and has wide-ranging and potentially damaging effects. We also discuss possible strategies for the mitigation of these effects.