BACKGROUND The increasing availability of digital data on scholarly inputs and outputs—
from research funding, productivity, and collaboration to paper citations and scientist mobility …

Collaborations among researchers and across disciplinary, organizational, and cultural
boundaries are vital to address increasingly complex challenges and opportunities in …

Women comprise a minority of the Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and
Medicine (STEMM) workforce. Quantifying the gender gap may identify fields that will not …

Using an online survey of academics at 55 randomly selected institutions across the US and
Canada, we explore priorities for publishing decisions and their perceived importance within …

How common is self-citation in scholarly publication, and does the practice vary by gender?
Using novel methods and a data set of 1.5 million research papers in the scholarly database …

Becoming Metric-Wise: A Bibliometric Guide for Researchers aims to inform researchers
about metrics so that they become aware of the evaluative techniques being applied to their …

The productivity and performance of men is generally rated more highly than that of women
in controlled experiments, suggesting conscious or unconscious gender biases in …

While inequalities in science are common, most efforts to understand them treat scientists as
isolated individuals, ignoring the network effects of collaboration. Here, we develop models …

Measures of research productivity have become widely used for obtaining tenure, third-party
funding, and additional resources from universities. However, previous studies indicate that …

Scientific collaborations shape ideas as well as innovations and are both the substrate for,
and the outcome of, academic careers. Recent studies show that gender inequality is still …