Should the research performance of scientists be distinguished by gender?

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Highlights:

• Male researchers generally outperform female ones.

• We compare the distributions of research performance for men and women.

• We draw up performance ranking lists with and without distinction by gender.

• We provide descriptive statistics of shifts of positions in 99 fields of research.

摘要

•Male researchers generally outperform female ones.•We compare the distributions of research performance for men and women.•We draw up performance ranking lists with and without distinction by gender.•We provide descriptive statistics of shifts of positions in 99 fields of research.

论文关键词:Research evaluation,Gender,Bibliometrics,Italy

论文评审过程:Received 15 July 2014, Revised 30 October 2014, Accepted 3 November 2014, Available online 23 November 2014.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2014.11.002