She Mingrong, Bachmann Jan, Karimi Fariba, Peel Leto
Department of Data Analytics and Digitalisation, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria.
R Soc Open Sci. 2025 Aug 6;12(8):241536. doi: 10.1098/rsos.241536. eCollection 2025 Aug.
We examine gender differences in collaboration networks and academic career progression in physics. We use the likelihood and time to become a principal investigator (PI) and the length of an author's career to measure career progression. Utilizing logistic regression and accelerated failure time models, we examine whether the effect of collaboration behaviour varies by gender. We find that, controlling for the number of publications, the relationship between collaborative behaviour and career progression is almost the same for men and women. Specifically, we find that those who eventually reach PI status tend to have published with more unique collaborators. In contrast, publishing repeatedly with the same highly interconnected collaborators and/or larger number of co-authors per publication is characteristic of shorter career lengths and not attaining PI status. We observe that women tend to collaborate in more tightly connected and larger groups than men. Finally, we observe that women are less likely to attain the status of PI throughout their careers and have a lower survival probability compared to men, which calls for policies to close this crucial gap.
我们研究了物理学领域合作网络和学术职业发展中的性别差异。我们使用成为首席研究员（PI）的可能性和时间以及作者的职业生涯长度来衡量职业发展。利用逻辑回归和加速失效时间模型，我们研究了合作行为的影响是否因性别而异。我们发现，在控制出版物数量的情况下，男性和女性的合作行为与职业发展之间的关系几乎相同。具体而言，我们发现最终达到PI地位的人往往与更多独特的合作者发表过论文。相比之下，与相同高度互联的合作者反复发表论文和/或每篇论文有更多共同作者是职业生涯较短且未获得PI地位的特征。我们观察到，女性倾向于在联系更紧密、规模更大的群体中合作。最后，我们观察到，与男性相比，女性在整个职业生涯中获得PI地位的可能性较小，生存概率较低，这需要制定政策来弥合这一关键差距。
