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dc.contributor.authorLiu, Fengyuan
dc.contributor.authorHolme, Petter
dc.contributor.authorChiesa, Matteo
dc.contributor.authorAlShebli, Bedoor
dc.contributor.authorRahwan, Talal
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-21T11:07:08Z
dc.date.available2023-08-21T11:07:08Z
dc.date.issued2023-01-16
dc.description.abstractScientific editors shape the content of academic journals and set standards for their fields. Yet, the degree to which the gender makeup of editors reflects that of scientists, and the rate at which editors publish in their own journals, are not entirely understood. Here, we use algorithmic tools to infer the gender of 81,000 editors serving more than 1,000 journals and 15 disciplines over five decades. Only 26% of authors in our dataset are women, and we find even fewer women among editors (14%) and editors-in-chief (8%). Career length explains the gender gap among editors, but not editors-in-chief. Moreover, by analysing the publication records of 20,000 editors, we find that 12% publish at least one-fifth, and 6% publish at least one-third, of their papers in the journal they edit. Editors-in-chief tend to self-publish at a higher rate. Finally, compared with women, men have a higher increase in the rate at which they publish in a journal soon after becoming its editor.en_US
dc.identifier.citationLiu, Holme, Chiesa, AlShebli, Rahwan. Gender inequality and self-publication are common among academic editors. Nature Human Behaviour. 2023;7(3):353-364en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2140044
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/s41562-022-01498-1
dc.identifier.issn2397-3374
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/30120
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSpringer Natureen_US
dc.relation.journalNature Human Behaviour
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2023 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en_US
dc.titleGender inequality and self-publication are common among academic editorsen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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