Collaboration enhances career progression in academic science, especially for female researchers.

ABSTRACT: Collaboration and diversity are increasingly promoted in science. Yet how collaborations influence academic career progression, and whether this differs by gender, remains largely unknown. Here, we use co-authorship ego networks to quantify collaboration behaviour and career progression of a cohort of contributors to biennial International Society of Behavioral Ecology meetings (1992, 1994, 1996). Among this cohort, women were slower and less likely to become a principal investigator (PI; approximated by having at least three last-author publications) and published fewer papers over fewer years (i.e. had shorter academic careers) than men. After adjusting for publication number, women also had fewer collaborators (lower adjusted network size) and published fewer times with each co-author (

SUBMITTER: van der Wal JEM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8424303 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature