Marga TorreSep 4, 2023
Björn Brembs
"female researchers appear to contribute more to the public good of #openscience, while their male colleagues focus on private reputation"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048733323001580
Sep 4, 2023 at 12:58pmBuffer
Show threadBenSep 4, 2023
@brembs I have observed this, or something quite similar, in other fields. I was a skilled tradesperson. A diemaker. My male coworkers tended to want to get credit for doing things, my female coworkers tended to not care so much about who got a pat on the back as long as the job got done. I could see this, and I'm a guy. I was ok with a supervisor thanking me, but that was never why I did what I did. Some of the guys were real glory hounds. Just one example, and my totally unscientific observation, but I think it's fairly representative
Show threadBjörn BrembsSep 4, 2023

@wolleysegap
How very interesting! Looks like my female side is well-developed 😁

'Glory hound' - new word for me, love it!

Show threadScott MatterSep 5, 2023

@brembs

Tangent… this bit of the abstract blows my mind and makes me wonder wtf we’re actually even doing

“ Studying 243,375 published articles in economics between 2015 and 2022”

7 years. Nearly 35,000 articles in economics per year. Why?

Show threadBjörn BrembsSep 5, 2023

@scottmatter

Apparently, there is a lot of economics research? In STM, there are now about 3 million articles every year, e.g., more than 10k papers/a just on the topic of the brain area "Hippocampus".

Article growth has been paralleling growth in researcher numbers for several decades now at about 3%/a.

Show threadScott MatterSep 5, 2023

@brembs

All that impact, all that novel contribution to knowledge. I don’t understand how we still have problems to solve with that kind of volume flowing through research pipelines.

Or maybe, just maybe, the publication-industrial complex has academics chasing metrics.