Gender differences in authorships are not associated with publication bias in an evolutionary journal.

ABSTRACT: The loss of talented women from senior academic positions has partly resulted from a lower number of published papers and the accompanying reduced visibility of female compared to male scientists. The reasons for these gender-differences in authorship is unclear. One potential reason is a bias in the editorial and review process of scientific journals. We investigated whether patterns of authorship and editorial outcome were biased according to gender and geographic location in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology. Such potential bias may contribute to inequality in the field. We found patterns of gender differences in authorship, but this was unrelated to the editorial decision of whether to publish the manuscript. Female first-authors (the lead role) were six times less likely to be named

SUBMITTER: Edwards HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6114708 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature