Abstract
Open access (OA) publishing is beneficial for researchers to improve recognition, representation, and visibility in academia. However, few studies have been conducted for studying the association between gender and OA publishing likelihood. Therefore, the current study explores the impacts of gender-based authorship structures on OA publishing in Vietnamese social sciences and humanities. Bayesian analysis was performed on a dataset of 3122 publications in social sciences and humanities. We found that publications with mixed-gender authorship were most likely to be published under Gold Access terms (26.31–31.65%). In contrast, the likelihood of publications with the solely male or female author(s) was lower. It is also notable that if female researcher(s) held the first-author position in an article of mixed-gender authorship, the publication would be less likely to be published under Gold Access terms (26.31% compared to 31.65% of male-first-author structure). In addition, publications written by a solo female author (14.19%) or a group of female authors (10.72%) had lower OA publishing probabilities than those written by a solely male author(s) (17.14%). These findings hint at the possible advantage of gender diversity and the disadvantage of gender homophily (especially female-only authorship) on OA publishing likelihood. Moreover, they show there might be some negative impacts of gender inequality on OA publishing. As a result, the notion of gender diversity, financial and policy supports are recommended to promote the open science movement.
Highlights
Gender inequality still exists in the modern system of scientific publishing [1,2,3,4,5]
Publishing, the present study aims to explore the impacts of gender-based authorship structures on Open access (OA) publishing in Vietnamese social sciences and humanities
We solely focused on the Gold Access publications—those that were published in fully open access sources and often required authors to pay article processing charges (APC)
Summary
Gender inequality still exists in the modern system of scientific publishing [1,2,3,4,5]. In terms of citation and authorship position, gender differences favoring men can be found in many disciplinaries such as political science [6], economics and management [7,8], neurology [9], and critical care research [10]. Of 18,483 research led by female authors is more likely to be published in lower-impact journals than male authors [10]. Such disparity can adversely affect the scientific career of women and underrate their scientific impacts for promotion and funding [11,12]. Improving the visibility and representation of women in academic publishing is essential because underrepresentation of women in scholarly
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