Meta‐gender‐study: A Gender Study of Global Distribution on Gender Studies. Issue 1 (13th October 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sun, Yinying; Lou, Wen; Zhang, Lin
• Is Part Of: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Volume 58:Issue 1(2021)
• Page Start: 839
• Page End: 841
• Publication Date: 2021-10-13
• Subjects: Gender Difference -- Gender Distribution -- Gender Study; Information science -- Congresses; Information technology -- Congresses; Information science; Information technology; Conference papers and proceedings; 020
• DOI: 10.1002/pra2.581
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2373-9231

Abstract

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to explore the gender distribution of researchers in the field of gender studies. We used bibliometrics methods on a dataset of gender studies from Web of Science between 2007 and 2019. The results show that unlike other fields in scientific communities, gender studies are dominated by female researchers. The majorities of gender study communities come from North America and Europe, which are both dominated by female researchers.