Fernando Fernández Palacín

Do men and women perform academic work differently

Why is the gender gap so large in researchers’ career progression? Do men and women have different priorities in their academic careers? This study explores men’s and women’s academic work to shed light on the strategies of male and female researchers. The online survey collected data on Andalusian researchers to determine possible differences in academic work that may explain the gender gap in the higher ranks of academia. The results reveal that men’s and women’s research performance mainly follows the same patterns, but they do differ in the diversity of women’s priorities, goals and working styles. This may explain women’s vulnerability that leads to their minority presence at the top. These results underline the importance of incorporating new approaches in academic careers based on non-linear trajectories departing from the ideal concept of career paths based on masculine hegemony.Why is the gender gap so large in researchers’ career progression? Do men and women have different priorities in their academic careers? This study explores men’s and women’s academic work to shed light on the strategies of male and female researchers. The online survey collected data on Andalusian researchers to determine possible differences in academic work that may explain the gender gap in the higher ranks of academia. The results reveal that men’s and women’s research performance mainly follows the same patterns, but they do differ in the diversity of women’s priorities, goals and working styles. This may explain women’s vulnerability that leads to their minority presence at the top. These results underline the importance of incorporating new approaches in academic careers based on non-linear trajectories departing from the ideal concept of career paths based on masculine hegemony.

Idoneidad de los indicadores de calidad de la producción científica y de la investigación

There is increasing awareness about the necessity of measuring and assess the production of scientific knowledge to understand the importance of the contributions and the quality of scientific results. Only the course of time has given rise to an implicit consensus about this issue, with general ideas that affect to all the scientific communities, but reached by agreement within each speciality. In this work we address these questions, which will lead us to expose the difficulties of obtaining an efficient indicator of quality by paying attention only to a narrow group of measures. This is especially evident when we examine the distance between... (Ver mas) knowledge areas, with different research cultures and hence, different methods of assessing the quality of their work. Thus, we will argue that the assessment of the scientific quality must be carried out from an integral point of view by taking into account its multifactorial nature.