Women's Footprint in Anti-Doping Sciences: A Bibliometric Approach to Research Impact.

ABSTRACT: Bibliometrics, via the exploitation of large-scale publication data, is a facile approach to explore gender-related trends, especially gender equality in academic publishing and authorship. For the first time, this study aims to investigate the gender-related trends in anti-doping sciences to (1) explore the relational structure of gender aspects of authorial, topical, and methodological features, (2) give recognition to women's contribution to anti-doping research, and (3) identify unique "gendered" potentials for advancing anti-doping research. To deliver on these aims, we employed bibliometric tools to publication records in anti-doping. After constructing a database containing academic publications on any aspect of anti-doping with at least one woman among the authors, we applie

SUBMITTER: Kiss A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9195593 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature