The Possible Role of Resource Requirements and Academic Career-Choice Risk on Gender Differences in Publication Rate and Impact
Figure 5
Lower publication rates of female faculty is correlated with higher requirements for research resources.
Effects of the magnitude of the resource requirements on the difference in publication rates between genders. Ecology is not included as we could not obtain data for resource requirements. The difference in publication rates is measured by the average z-score of number of publications by females in each year, and the error bars indicate the standard errors. The resource requirements is defined as the average annual research expenditure per principal investigator in the departments studied (Table 2, [40]). The trend line (black dashed line) indicates a negative correlation (coefficient of determination ). These data suggest that higher resource requirements lead to greater differences in the publication rates between females and their male peers.