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Over twenty years of publications in Ecology: Over-contribution of women reveals a new dimension of gender bias.
| العنوان: | Over twenty years of publications in Ecology: Over-contribution of women reveals a new dimension of gender bias. |
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| المؤلفون: | Fontanarrosa G; Instituto de Biodiversidad Neotropical (IBN), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT), Yerba Buena, Tucumán, Argentina., Zarbá L; Instituto de Investigaciones Territoriales y Tecnológicas para la Producción del Hábitat UNT-CONICET, Tucumán, Argentina., Aschero V; Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales (IANIGLA), CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (UNCuyo), Mendoza, Argentina., Dos Santos DA; Instituto de Biodiversidad Neotropical (IBN), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT), Yerba Buena, Tucumán, Argentina.; Instituto Vertebrados, Zoología, Fundación Miguel Lillo, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Yerba Buena, Argentina., Nuñez Montellano MG; Instituto de Ecología Regional (IER), Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT)- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Yerba Buena, Tucumán, Argentina., Plaza Behr MC; Instituto de Ecología Regional (IER), Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT)- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Yerba Buena, Tucumán, Argentina., Schroeder N; Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas (IADIZA), CCT-CONICET, Argentina.; Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina., Lomáscolo SB; Instituto de Ecología Regional (IER), Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT)- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Yerba Buena, Tucumán, Argentina., Fanjul ME; Instituto Vertebrados, Zoología, Fundación Miguel Lillo, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Yerba Buena, Argentina.; Fundación Miguel Lillo, Tucumán, Argentina., Monmany Garzia AC; Instituto de Ecología Regional (IER), Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT)- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Yerba Buena, Tucumán, Argentina., Alvarez M; Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina (UNT), Argentina.; Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero, Argentina (UNSE), Argentina., Novillo A; Instituto de Biodiversidad Neotropical (IBN), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT), Yerba Buena, Tucumán, Argentina., Lorenzo Pisarello MJ; Centro de Referencia para Lactobacilos CCT NoA Sur. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina., D'Almeida RE; Instituto Superior de Investigaciones Biológicas (INSIBIO), CCT NoA Sur. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina., Valoy M; Fundación Miguel Lillo, Tucumán, Argentina., Ramírez-Mejía AF; Instituto de Ecología Regional (IER), Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT)- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Yerba Buena, Tucumán, Argentina., Rodríguez D; Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas (IADIZA), CCT-CONICET, Argentina.; Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina., Reynaga C; Instituto de Biodiversidad Neotropical (IBN), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT), Yerba Buena, Tucumán, Argentina., Sandoval Salinas ML; Instituto de Investigación en Luz, Ambiente y Visión (ILAV), CONICET-UNT, Argentina.; Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad Argentina (PIDBA), Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT), Yerba Buena, Tucumán, Argentina., Chillo V; Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche (IFAB) IFAB INTA-CONICET, Agencia de Extensión Rural de El Bolsón, Argentina., Piquer-Rodríguez M; Institute of Geographical Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany. |
| المصدر: | PloS one [PLoS One] 2024 Sep 19; Vol. 19 (9), pp. e0307813. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Sep 19 (Print Publication: 2024). |
| نوع المنشور: | Journal Article |
| اللغة: | English |
| بيانات الدورية: | Publisher: Public Library of Science Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 101285081 Publication Model: eCollection Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1932-6203 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 19326203 NLM ISO Abbreviation: PLoS One Subsets: MEDLINE |
| أسماء مطبوعة: | Original Publication: San Francisco, CA : Public Library of Science |
| مواضيع طبية MeSH: | Sexism* , Authorship* , Ecology*, Humans ; Female ; Male ; Publications ; Publishing/statistics & numerical data ; Periodicals as Topic/statistics & numerical data |
| مستخلص: | Biographical features like social and economic status, ethnicity, sexuality, care roles, and gender unfairly disadvantage individuals within academia. Authorship patterns should reflect the social dimension behind the publishing process and co-authorship dynamics. To detect potential gender biases in the authorship of papers and examine the extent of women's contribution in terms of the substantial volume of scientific production in Ecology, we surveyed papers from the top-ranked journal Ecology from 1999 to 2021. We developed a Women's Contribution Index (WCI) to measure gender-based individual contributions. Considering gender, allocation in the author list, and the total number of authors, the WCI calculates the sum of each woman's contribution per paper. We compared the WCI with women's expected contributions in a non-gender-biased scenario. Overall, women account for 30% of authors of Ecology, yet their contribution to papers is higher than expected by chance (i.e., over-contribution). Additionally, by comparing the WCI with an equivalent Men's Contribution Index, we found that women consistently have higher contributions compared to men. We also observed a temporal trend of increasing women's authorship and mixed-gender papers. This suggests some progress in addressing gender bias in the field of ecology. However, we emphasize the need for a better understanding of the pattern of over-contribution, which may partially stem from the phenomenon of over-compensation. In this context, women might need to outperform men to be perceived and evaluated as equals. The WCI provides a valuable tool for quantifying individual contributions and understanding gender biases in academic publishing. Moreover, the index could be customized to suit the specific question of interest. It serves to uncover a previously non-quantified type of bias (over-contribution) that, we argue, is the response to the inequitable structure of the scientific system, leading to differences in the roles of individuals within a scientific publishing team. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. (Copyright: © 2024 Fontanarrosa et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.) |
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| تواريخ الأحداث: | Date Created: 20240919 Date Completed: 20240919 Latest Revision: 20240922 |
| رمز التحديث: | 20240922 |
| مُعرف محوري في PubMed: | PMC11412523 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0307813 |
| PMID: | 39298391 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | MEDLINE |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 1932-6203 |
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| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0307813 |