Meeting evaluation criteria based on authorship positions by gender, academic age, and research field: the Spanish case

2024/12/27 by Zaida Chinchilla‐Rodríguez, Manuel Escabias, Fernanda Morillo · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Decision Sciences · Medicine · #Academic Writing and Publishing #Health and Medical Research Impacts #scientometrics and bibliometrics research

paper · doi:10.1093/reseval/rvaf008

openalex publication_date 2024/12/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29

Abstract

Abstract This study aims to provide an overview of the distribution of the Spanish scientific workforce focusing on differences in authorship position by gender, academic age, number of authors, and research field. The results show some degree of parity in younger age cohorts and areas such as biomedicine, but little participation of females in the oldest age cohort and areas such as mathematics. In addition, the presence of women undergoes significant changes in certain areas and decreases in oldest age cohorts. This circumstance leads to a low probability of finding women or junior researchers in relevant authorship positions. Policymakers should know that inequalities in the scientific workforce must be considered when addressing/proposing scientific evaluation criteria.

Citations

• The woman researcher's tale: A review of bibliometric methods and results for studying gender in science
• The role of gender in scholarly authorship
• Gender inequalities among authors who contributed equally

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