论文标题
关于中东和北非缺乏女性研究人员
On the lack of women researchers in the Middle East & North Africa
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论文摘要
中东和北非地区最近的性别政策（MENA）地区改善了在某些国家有明显影响的妇女的法律平等。然而，这些政策对科学的影响并不是很好地理解。这项研究应用了文献计量镜头来描述MENA科学研究中性别差异的景观。具体而言，我们研究了2008年至2020年间来自MENA的110万作者在《科学》上索引的170万篇论文。我们使用书目计量指标来分析在作者，研究生产力和作者资格资格中，男性和女性之间的潜在差异。结果表明，性别平等远非北非地区的实现。总体而言，男性作者获得了更高的代表性，研究生产力和资历。但是一些国家杰出的人物：突尼斯，黎巴嫩，土耳其，阿尔及利亚和埃及的股票或女性研究人员与其他北非国家相比具有更高的股份或女性研究人员。阿联酋，卡塔尔和约旦在妇女参与科学方面表现出了进步，但沙特阿拉伯落后。我们发现，女性比男性更有可能停止出版，男性平均比女性高出11％至51％，随着时间的流逝，这种差距增加。最后，男性平均比女性更快地获得了作者身份的高级职位。我们的纵向研究有助于更好地了解MENA科学中的性别差异，这在政策参与和妇女代表方面正在赶上。但是，结果表明，政策变化的影响尚未实现妇女参与和科学表现的明显改善。
Recent gender policies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have improved legal equality for women with noticeable effects in some countries. The implications of these policies on science, however, is not well-understood. This study applies a bibliometric lens to describe the landscape of gender disparities in scientific research in MENA. Specifically, we examine 1.7 million papers indexed in the Web of Science published by 1.1 million authors from MENA between 2008 and 2020. We used bibliometric indicators to analyse potential disparities between men and women in the share of authors, research productivity, and seniority in authorship. The results show that gender parity is far from being achieved in MENA. Overall, men authors obtain higher representation, research productivity, and seniority. But some countries standout: Tunisia, Lebanon, Turkey, Algeria and Egypt have higher shares or women researchers compared to the rest of MENA countries. The UAE, Qatar, and Jordan have shown progress in terms of women participation in science, but Saudi Arabia lags behind. We find that women are more likely to stop publishing than men and that men publish on average between 11% and 51% more than women, with this gap increasing over time. Finally, men, on average, achieved senior positions in authorship faster than women. Our longitudinal study contributes to a better understanding of gender disparities in science in MENA which is catching up in terms of policy engagement and women representation. However, the results suggest that the effects of the policy changes have yet to materialize into distinct improvement in women's participation and performance in science.
