Vicious circles of gender bias, lower positions, and lower performance: Gender differences in scholarly productivity and impact

Peter van den Besselaar; Ulf Sandström

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0183301

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Vicious circles of gender bias, lower positions, and lower performance: Gender differences in scholarly productivity and impact

Peter van den Besselaar ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: p.a.a.vanden.besselaar@vu.nl

Affiliation Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Network Institute & Institute for Societal Resilience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8304-8565

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Ulf Sandström

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation KTH Royal Institute of Technology, INDEK, Stockholm, Sweden
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Vicious circles of gender bias, lower positions, and lower performance: Gender differences in scholarly productivity and impact

Peter van den Besselaar,
Ulf Sandström

Published: August 25, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183301

About the Authors

Peter van den Besselaar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: p.a.a.vanden.besselaar@vu.nl

Affiliation Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Network Institute & Institute for Societal Resilience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8304-8565

Ulf Sandström

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation KTH Royal Institute of Technology, INDEK, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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