Differences in publication behaviour between female and male scientists. Bibliometric analysis of longitudinal data from 1980 to 2005 with regard to gender differences in productivity and involvement, collaboration and citation impact

摘要

The topic of this thesis are differences in publication behaviour between female and male scientists. It is possible to assign a gender to a person based on their given name, and in some countries, in whose languages surnames are also inflected by gender, also based on their surname. For said countries, both methods are compared and evaluated. By way of the surname form method, gender is assigned to the names of authors or scientific publication of a number of countries and the groups of female and male authors are compared for the period of 1980 to 2010 in regards to productivity and involvement, cooperation and citation impact. Suitable metrics for these categories are introduced. Each countriy’s results are discussed and subsequently all countries are compared.