Ferber, MA; Brun, M. 2011. The Gender Gap in Citations: Does It Persist?. FEMINIST ECONOMICS 17 (1): 151-158

[Eugene Garfield]

Ferber, MA; Brun, M. 2011. The Gender Gap in Citations: Does It Persist?. 
FEMINIST ECONOMICS 17 (1): 151-158.

Author Full Name(s): Ferber, Marianne A.; Bruen, Michael
Language: English
Document Type: Article

Author Keywords: Academia; citations; discrimination; publications; tokens; 
women
KeyWords Plus: ECONOMICS; WOMEN; SEX

Abstract: In the late 1970s and early 1980s, several researchers showed the 
importance, in the United States, of the number of times scholars' publications 
are cited for determining their bargaining power in academia. Not surprisingly, 
the question was soon raised whether citations are a good measure of scholarly 
merit. Are women at a disadvantage in male-dominated fields, such as 
economics? Studies had shown that authors tended to cite a larger proportion 
of publications by authors of the same gender. This paper examines whether 
women's disadvantage in garnering citations has been reduced by the 
increasing representation of women in economics and finds that this has been 
the case in both labor economics and economics in general, albeit not to the 
same degree.

Addresses: [Ferber, Marianne A.] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA; [Ferber, 
Marianne A.] Midwest Econ Assoc, St Louis, MO USA
Reprint Address: Ferber, MA, Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA.
ISSN: 1354-5701
DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2010.541857
URL: 
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a932598195