The Gender Citation Gap in International Relations
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Frequently Asked Questions (10)
Q2. What topics are more likely to be written by women?
Women are more likely to write articles on human rights, comparative foreign policy, health, international law, and the environment+
Q3. How many citations are predicted for each article in the TRIP data set?
Using the career model from their analysis, the authors calculate the predicted number of citations for each article in their data set authored by women only or having at least one author from each gender+
Q4. Why is IR a more “masculinized” subfield?
It is possible, for example, that IR is a more “masculinized” subfield because of its connections with the foreign policy world or because a greater proportion of IR scholars are male+
Q5. How many years of exposure to possible citations did the authors exclude?
the authors exclude articles published later than 2006 so that each article has at least five years of exposure to possible citations by the time the authors gathered the counts+
Q6. what is a dummy variable for a postpositivist article?
When the authors include a dummy variable for whether the article is postpositivist or nonpositivist, as seen in the epistemology model ~Model 4!, positivist articles receive relatively more cites than similar non- or postpositivist articles+
Q7. How many articles are cited by at least one other article in the largest cluster?
Using the network of citations produced by the twelve journals in the TRIP article-coding database, the authors calculate the “authority” score for all articles cited by at least one other article in the largest cluster of articles+
Q8. How many articles have been systematically coded and arbitrated?
The database itself contains bibliographic data on all articles up to 2010, but articles have been systematically coded and arbitrated only through 2006+4+
Q9. How many citations do the authors subtract from the total number of articles?
To address this, the authors not only subtract all self-citations from the total number of citations an article receives, but the authors also subtract an additional 3+65 citations for each self-cite+56
Q10. How do you measure the quality of a scholar’s work?
Citations are one of the chief metrics used in academia to evaluate a scholar’s performance and influence, and to distribute resources, including salary+30