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Papers: 21 Dec 2019 - 27 Dec 2019

RESEARCH TYPE:
Psychology


Human Studies


2019 12 16


BMJ


367

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Gender differences in how scientists present the importance of their research: observational study.

Authors

Lerchenmueller MJ, Sorenson O, Jena AB
BMJ. 2019 12 16; 367:l6573.
PMID: 31843745.

Abstract

Women remain underrepresented on faculties of medicine and the life sciences more broadly. Whether gender differences in self presentation of clinical research exist and may contribute to this gender gap has been challenging to explore empirically. The objective of this study was to analyze whether men and women differ in how positively they frame their research findings and to analyze whether the positive framing of research is associated with higher downstream citations.