Are Papers Written by Women Authors Cited Less Frequently?
Publication type
journal article
Publication date
2018
Author(s)
Esarey, J.
Bryant, K.
Language
English
View point(s)
Theory
Global
Peer Review System
Discipline(s)
Abstract
Dion, Sumner, and Mitchell (2018) find that a published article is more likely to cite at least one female-Authored paper if that article is itself authored by women. To complement their work, we study the number of times that an article in their data set is cited given that it has at least one female author. We find that articles with at least one female author are cited no more or less often than male-Authored articles once we control for the publishing journal and the number of authors. The importance of controlling for author count in our model suggests that spurious correlation and/or self-citation might explain at least some of the gender differences found by Dion, Sumner, and Mitchell (2018). Copyright © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Political Methodology.Â.
Journal
Political Analysis
ISSN
1476-4989
Volume
26
Issue
3
Pagination
331-334