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SOE: Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

SOE 10: Sociophysics Approaches to Diversity and Equality (Accompanying Session to the Symposium Diversity and Equality in Physics)

SOE 10.3: Talk

Tuesday, March 19, 2024, 13:45–14:00, PTB HS HvHB

The Role of Prestige on the Visibility of Underrepresented Groups in Physics Citation Rankings: International Mobility, Nationality and Gender — •Ana Maria Jaramillo¹ and Fariba Karimi^1,2 — ¹NetIn Group, CSH Vienna, Austria — ²Institute of Interactive Systems and Data Science, TU Graz, Austria

AI-powered academic engines using citation rankings reinforce scientific biases, underrepresenting certain groups. We aim to understand how international mobility has influenced top-ranking positions in Physics by researchers who face intersecting forms of oppression (such as women from low-income countries). We study the gender and geographical representation of researchers in top-ranked positions across the Physics literature. There is small participation across different career stages for women, with an average of 0.26 and a concentration of researchers from East Asia & Pacific and Europe & Central Asia, with many affiliations in North America. Regarding mobility, Italian, German, and Chinese researchers have the highest affiliations with their respective countries, while the United States attract researchers from various nationalities. Notably, researchers from East Asia & Pacific countries are underrepresented in the citation rankings. When examining the intersection of nationality, affiliation, and gender, women are disproportionately underrepresented in top-ranking positions across all countries except for Turkey. Future analysis should investigate how the co-authorship networks of the researchers impact the mobility of researchers and consequently impact the representation in top-ranking positions of citations based on nationality and gender.

Keywords: Fairness in AI; Gender representation; Science of science