Gender variations in citation distributions in medicine are very small and due to self-citation and journal prestige

A number of studies suggest that scientific papers with women in leading-author positions attract fewer citations than those with men in leading-author positions. We report the results of a matched case-control study of 1,269,542 papers in selected areas of medicine published between 2008 and 2014....

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Main Authors: Jens Peter Andersen, Jesper Wiborg Schneider, Reshma Jagsi, Mathias Wullum Nielsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2019-07-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/45374