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Are Papers Written by Women Authors Cited Less Frequently?

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  • Esarey, Justin
  • Bryant, Kristin

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Dion, Sumner, and Mitchell (2018) find that a published article is more likely to cite at least one female-authored paper if that article is itself authored by women. To complement their work, we study the number of times that an article in their data set is cited given that it has at least one female author. We find that articles with at least one female author are cited no more or less often than male-authored articles once we control for the publishing journal and the number of authors. The importance of controlling for author count in our model suggests that spurious correlation and/or self-citation might explain at least some of the gender differences found by Dion, Sumner, and Mitchell (2018).

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  • Esarey, Justin & Bryant, Kristin, 2018. "Are Papers Written by Women Authors Cited Less Frequently?," Political Analysis, Cambridge University Press, vol. 26(3), pages 331-334, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:polals:v:26:y:2018:i:03:p:331-334_00
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