Dr Jess McLaughlin (they/them)#CitationEquity is an important issue that i talk about a lot with colleagues- but who am i actually citing? i evaluated whether i was living up to my own values by taking a deep dive into my dissertation, and learned some uncomfortable truths about my shortcomings in this area:
Putting values in practice: checking citation equity in my own dissertation — Jess McLaughlin, PhD
In recent years, there’s been more and more discussion on how there are large disparities in who gets cited and who doesn’t in large swathes of scientific literature. While some of the existing studies trying to quantify the exact scope of the problem have some serious methodological issues (which