Gender differences in how scientists present the importance of their research: observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Women remain underrepresented on faculties of medicine and the life sciences more broadly. Whether gender differences in self presentation of clinical research exist and may contribute to this gender gap has been challenging to explore empirically. The objective of this study was to analyze whether men and women differ in how positively they frame their research findings and to analyze whether the positive framing of research is associated with higher downstream citations.

Design

Retrospective observational study.

Data sources

Titles and abstracts from 101 720 clinical research articles and approximately 6.2 million general life science articles indexed in PubMed and published between 2002 and 2017.

Main outcome measures

Analysis of article titles an

SUBMITTER: Lerchenmueller MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7190066 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature