Also we chase women out of academia by early mid-career, so they have less opportunity for self citation.
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damnedfurry@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Is the point meant to be that women don’t build off of their previous work as much as men? lol
Powerful This “science meme” needs more science and less meme, imo, lol
vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
damnedfurry@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Uh, women graduate college at a rate much higher than men in the US, this is total bullshit, lol.
vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
First of all, at best ours tangentially related. There are a lot of steps between graduation and being a mid career researcher.
Second, if anything it underscores my point - that women are dropping out of academia faster than men.
But we don’t have to speculate. We have lots of statistics about this. Women leave academia at higher rates than men. This is not really up for debate.
usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Not necessarily. Self citation is different than building on your previous work. You might just seek to use other citations for the relevent concepts
MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 1 week ago
Yeah, I feel like a good middle ground is to cite your previous work in the context of “as we previously reported,” but maybe that’s just based on something that was ingrained in me by academia. It seems tacky. My boss has no problem with it though, he’s like, “idgaf, more citations, more views, higher impact.”