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About this paper
Kazuki Nakajima, Ruodan Liu, Kazuyuki Shudo, Naoki Masuda
Researchers quantified gender imbalance in East Asian academia, finding that China, Japan, and South Korea consistently exhibit lower proportions of female researchers, shorter female career lengths, and significant biases against female-authored papers in citation practices compared to other global regions. The study highlighted that Japan often showed the largest disparities in these academic indicators.
Key insights
- East Asian countries, particularly Japan, exhibit larger gender imbalances in academic participation, career progression, and citation practices compared to a pooled group of other research-active countries.
- Differences in career length and the number of coauthors are substantial contributors to the observed gender gaps in total productivity and total impact for female researchers across all regions.
- East Asian citation practices consistently show an over-citation of male-male (MM) and female-male (WM) authored papers and an under-citation of female-female (WW) authored papers, a bias more pronounced than in other global regions.
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