Gender differences in representation, citations, and h-index: An empirical examination of the field of communication across the ten most productive countries.

ABSTRACT: Women researchers have been shown to be underrepresented in science, especially among the most productive scholars. This is especially relevant in the social sciences and humanities fields, where gender parity is closer, but disparities among top scholars are still pronounced. The gender gap in the field of communication has been explored from several approaches, but studies focusing on gender differences in representation, citations, and h-index are rather scarce. Drawing upon data retrieved from SciVal, we conducted a comparative study of the top 500 and top 100 most productive scholars (N = 5000) for each of the ten most productive countries in communication research in the 2019-2022 period: the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Spain, Germany, India, Australia, Canada, Italy, a

SUBMITTER: Goyanes M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11578513 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature