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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">new article in PLOS Biology…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#666666"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002573">http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002573</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="article1.front1.article-meta1.abstract1."></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">Collaboration plays an increasingly important role in promoting research productivity and impact.
What remains unclear is whether female and male researchers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) disciplines differ in their collaboration propensity. Here, we report on an empirical analysis of the complete publication records of 3,980
faculty members in six STEM disciplines at select U.S. research universities. We find that female faculty have significantly fewer distinct co-authors over their careers than males, but that this difference can be fully accounted for by females’ lower publication
rate and shorter career lengths. Next, we find that female scientists have a lower probability of repeating previous co-authors than males, an intriguing result because prior research shows that teams involving new collaborations produce work with higher impact.
Finally, we find evidence for gender segregation in some sub-disciplines in molecular biology, in particular in genomics where we find female faculty to be clearly under-represented.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;color:#1F497D">_____________________________________________________________________</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D">Ora A. Weisz, PhD | Professor of Medicine, Professor of Cell Biology
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D">Vice Chair of Faculty Development, Department of Medicine</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D">Associate Dean for Faculty Development, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D">Assistant Vice Chancellor for Faculty Excellence, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D">Renal-Electrolyte Division | 978.1 Scaife Hall | 3550 Terrace St. | Pittsburgh PA 15261<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D">Tel: 412-383-8891 | Email:
<a href="mailto:weisz@pitt.edu">weisz@pitt.edu</a> | website: weisz2.dept-med.pitt.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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