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Researchers tend to co-author with individuals of the same gender, partly because of demography, norms and gender representation, but seemingly also through personal preference

04.05.23 | PLOS

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Gender-based homophily in collaborations across a heterogeneous scholarly landscape
Researchers tend to co-author with individuals of the same gender, partly because of demography, norms and gender representation, but seemingly also through personal preference. Credit: Elf-Moondance, Pixabay, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

Researchers tend to co-author with individuals of the same gender, partly because of demography, norms and gender representation, but seemingly also through personal preference

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0283106

Article Title: Gender-based homophily in collaborations across a heterogeneous scholarly landscape

Author Countries: USA

Funding: This research was supported by the Royalty Research Fund Grant #A118374 awarded to EE (PI) and CL (co-PI), National Science Foundation Grant #1735194 awarded to JW (co-PI), and National Science Foundation SMA 19-52069 to CTB. https://www.washington.edu/research/or/royalty-research-fund-rrf/ ; https://www.nsf.gov/ . The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

PLOS ONE

10.1371/journal.pone.0283106

Gender-based homophily in collaborations across a heterogeneous scholarly landscape

5-Apr-2023

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Keywords

Demography Gender Homophily Research Funding Scientific Collaboration Scientific Community

Article Information

Journal
PLOS ONE
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0283106
Article Publication Date
2023-04-05
Article Title
Gender-based homophily in collaborations across a heterogeneous scholarly landscape
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Contact Information

Hanna Abdallah
PLOS
onepress@plos.org

How to Cite This Article

APA:
PLOS. (2023, April 5). Researchers tend to co-author with individuals of the same gender, partly because of demography, norms and gender representation, but seemingly also through personal preference. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/LN297G41/researchers-tend-to-co-author-with-individuals-of-the-same-gender-partly-because-of-demography-norms-and-gender-representation-but-seemingly-also-through-personal-preference.html
MLA:
"Researchers tend to co-author with individuals of the same gender, partly because of demography, norms and gender representation, but seemingly also through personal preference." Brightsurf News, Apr. 5 2023, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/LN297G41/researchers-tend-to-co-author-with-individuals-of-the-same-gender-partly-because-of-demography-norms-and-gender-representation-but-seemingly-also-through-personal-preference.html.