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Our results worryingly show that academics who publish with a larger proportion of female co-authors are less cited.
In addition, when women collaborate with the same number of co-authors as men, or target similar Impact Factor journals, their articles are less cited then those of their male colleagues.
Moreover, we assume, other things being equal, that articles written by females are less cited than articles written by men.
Because articles written by women have been found to be less cited than articles written by men [2, 6], we expect to find that articles by women are less cited than articles by men.
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It follows from the hypotheses presented earlier, and from previous research, that, all other things being equal, articles with a first author whose surname begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet is less cited than an article written by a first author whose surname begins with a letter figuring early on in the alphabet.
Another reason is that Asian regional journals, particularly in their native languages, tend to be less cited by English-speaking researchers because of the extra effort of translation.
The simple comparison of Figure 4 needs also to take account of the mean RL of papers from each area, and, when this is done, a different pattern emerges, with EH=Edinburgh, OX=Oxford and CB=Cambridge forming an axis of excellence (on this indicator) and other areas' output being less cited on guidelines.
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Furthermore, when targeting similar Impact Factor journals, researchers who collaborate with a higher proportion of female co-authors are consistently less cited in both the health and NSE fields than if they were publishing with a male dominated group of co-authors.
The misuse of the journal impact factor is highly destructive, inviting a gaming of the metric that can bias journals against publishing important papers in fields (such as social sciences and ecology) that are much less cited than others (such as biomedicine).
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