Explanations of productivity differences between men and women in science tend to focus
on the academic sector and the individual level. This article examines how variation in …

Numerous studies have shown that female scientists tend to publish significantly fewer
publications than do their male colleagues. In this study, we have analyzed whether similar …

The paper revisits the issue of the gender gap in scientific productivity, often referred as the
“productivity puzzle” by economists and sociologists of science. After providing a critical …

We study whether increasing the share of female inventors leads to more biomedical
inventions that focus on the needs of women. After accounting for detailed disease …

The question of gender disparities in research funding, with female scientists less funded
than their male counterparts, originally emerged as part of the so-called “productivity …

The growing importance of technology-relevant non-publication output of university research
has come into the focus of policy-makers' interest. A fierce debate arose on possible …

This paper contributes to the literature on the observed research funding and scientific
productivity gender gap in science. On the basis of very detailed information for a sample of …

The output of female researchers in Iceland, relative to that of males, can be investigated
because typically their “surnames” end in “dottir” whereas the names of males end in “son” …

As the commercialization of academic research has risen as a target area in many countries,
the need for better empirical data collection to evaluate policy changes on this front has …

The paper presents the results of an examination of gender differences in scientific
productivity on a sample of 840 respondents, half the young scientific population in Croatia …