Over the last few decades, research, activity, and funding has been devoted to improving the
recruitment, retention, and advancement of women in the fields of science, engineering, and …

Research on bias in peer review examines scholarly communication and funding processes
to assess the epistemic and social legitimacy of the mechanisms by which knowledge …

Across academia, men and women tend to publish at unequal rates. Existing explanations
include the potentially unequal impact of parenthood on scholarship, but a lack of …

There is extensive, yet fragmented, evidence of gender differences in academia suggesting
that women are underrepresented in most scientific disciplines and publish fewer articles …

Academia serves as a valuable case for studying the effects of social forces on workplace
productivity, using a concrete measure of output: scholarly papers. Many academics …

Much has been written in the past two decades about women in academic science careers,
but this literature is contradictory. Many analyses have revealed a level playing field, with …

Peer review is the cornerstone of scholarly publishing and it is essential that peer reviewers
are appointed on the basis of their expertise alone. However, it is difficult to check for any …

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 …

Faculty at prestigious institutions produce more scientific papers, receive more citations and
scholarly awards, and are typically trained at more-prestigious institutions than faculty with …

The German higher education system has a remarkably rich history. When Wilhelm von
Humboldt established the Berlin University in 1810 he founded the first research university …