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Bibliometrics: Global gender disparities in science

Cassidy R. Sugimoto and colleagues present a bibliometric analysis confirming that gender imbalances persist in research output worldwide.

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Larivière, V., Ni, C., Gingras, Y. et al. Bibliometrics: Global gender disparities in science. Nature 504, 211–213 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/504211a

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