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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 10.4: Talk
Tuesday, March 19, 2024, 14:00–14:15, PTB HS HvHB
Gender Disparities in Brokerage of Scientific Collaboration — •Jan Bachmann1,2, Lisette Espín-Noboa1,2, Gerardo Iñiguez2,3,4,5, and Fariba Karimi1,6 — 1Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria — 2Dep. of Network and Data Science, Central European University, Vienna, Austria — 3Dep. of Computer Science, Aalto University, Aalto, Finland — 4Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland — 5Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad, Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico — 6TU Graz, Graz, Austria
In the scientific community, structural gender inequalities persist, leaving women disadvantaged in how many papers they publish, how their work is recognized and how likely they are to drop out of academia early. Although collaboration disparities contribute to these inequalities, little is known about differences in how new collaborations emerge and how this affects career success. Therefore, we conceptualise tertius iungens brokerage to study who introduces who to whom. We analyse the initial formation of triangles among physicists in the collaboration network across APS journals. Our results establish that early career brokerage leads to higher productivity (publications) and impact (citations). Moreover, this effect increases over career stages: early brokerage stimulates more brokerage later, exacerbating potential early career differences between men and women. We plan to identify these differences and further disentangle the role of gender in brokerage and whether both women and men can profit equally.
Keywords: gender inequality; science of science; temporal collaboration networks; brokerage