Gender-diverse teams produce more novel and higher-impact scientific ideas.

ABSTRACT: Science's changing demographics raise new questions about research team diversity and research outcomes. We study mixed-gender research teams, examining 6.6 million papers published across the medical sciences since 2000 and establishing several core findings. First, the fraction of publications by mixed-gender teams has grown rapidly, yet mixed-gender teams continue to be underrepresented compared to the expectations of a null model. Second, despite their underrepresentation, the publications of mixed-gender teams are substantially more novel and impactful than the publications of same-gender teams of equivalent size. Third, the greater the gender balance on a team, the better the team scores on these performance measures. Fourth, these patterns generalize across medical subfields. Finall

SUBMITTER: Yang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9456721 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature