Gender-Heterogeneous Working Groups Produce Higher Quality Science

Here we present the first empirical evidence to support the hypothesis that a gender-heterogeneous problem-solving team generally produced journal articles perceived to be higher quality by peers than a team comprised of highly-performing individuals of the same gender. Although women were historica...

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Vydáno v:PloS one Ročník 8; číslo 10; s. e79147
Hlavní autoři: Campbell, Lesley G., Mehtani, Siya, Dozier, Mary E., Rinehart, Janice
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: United States Public Library of Science 30.10.2013
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Author productivity
Authoring
Authorship
Bioaccumulation
Citations
Collaboration
Cooperative Behavior
Documents
Ecological monitoring
Ecologists
Ecology
Editors
Empirical analysis
Engineering
Evolutionary biology
Female
Gender differences
Hirsch index
Historical account
Human subjects
Humans
Information science
Male
Multiculturalism & pluralism
People with disabilities
Problem Solving
Reviews
Science
Scientometrics
Sex Factors
Sexism
Society
Studies
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ISSN:1932-6203, 1932-6203
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Shrnutí:Here we present the first empirical evidence to support the hypothesis that a gender-heterogeneous problem-solving team generally produced journal articles perceived to be higher quality by peers than a team comprised of highly-performing individuals of the same gender. Although women were historically underrepresented as principal investigators of working groups, their frequency as PIs at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis is now comparable to the national frequencies in biology and they are now equally qualified, in terms of their impact on the accumulation of ecological knowledge (as measured by the h-index). While women continue to be underrepresented as working group participants, peer-reviewed publications with gender-heterogeneous authorship teams received 34% more citations than publications produced by gender-uniform authorship teams. This suggests that peers citing these publications perceive publications that also happen to have gender-heterogeneous authorship teams as higher quality than publications with gender uniform authorship teams. Promoting diversity not only promotes representation and fairness but may lead to higher quality science.
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Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Conceived and designed the experiments: LGC SM. Performed the experiments: LGC SM MED. Analyzed the data: LGC SM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LGC JR. Wrote the paper: LGC SM MED JR.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0079147