Gender issues in fundamental physics: Strumia’s bibliometric analysis fails to account for key confounders and confuses correlation with causation

2021/01/01 by Philip Ball, T. Ben Britton, Erin Hengel +5 · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Decision Sciences · #Climate Change Communication and Perception #scientometrics and bibliometrics research

paper · pdf · doi:10.1162/qss_a_00117

openalex publication_date 2021/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04

Abstract

Alessandro Strumia recently published a survey of gender differences in publications and citations in high-energy physics (HEP). In addition to providing full access to the data, code, and methodology, Strumia (2021) systematically describes and accounts for gender differences in HEP citation networks. His analysis points both to ongoing difficulties in attracting women to HEP and an encouraging-though slow-trend in improvement.

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