...meanwhile, in daily life on Wikipedia, the effects of non-citation regarding female academics is immediately reflected in the difficulties of reaching Wikipedia notability status for said female academics:On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Joe Corneli <holtzermann17@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 23 2016, Heather Ford wrote:
> There's an interesting discussion going on right now on the Association of
> Internet Researchers mailing list about the citing of women (and women of
> colour) in academia that I thought might be interesting. The comments are
> also really (as Gabriella Coleman noted) 'lively' so they're worth a read
> too. I'd be curious to learn more about how we as a Wikipedia research
> community fare here too...
>
> https://merylalper.com/2016/02/22/please-read-the-article-please-cite-women-academics/
Heather, from my perspective that discussion looks mostly like people
talking past each other.
To recap what I learned: It seems that Fred Kaplan didn't notice a book
that might have been relevant to his research and therefor didn't cite
it (this is what he claims anyway). When Meryl Alper pointed out the
missing citation, he was dismissive rather than appreciative. But she
wasn't exactly diplomatic; contact seems to have been initiated from her
side as follows:
"how come no mention of this claim made prior by @frauricker:
http://nyupress.org/books/9780814708675/ …? shame on @nytimes @fmkaplan"
- https://twitter.com/merylalper/status/701027695400976384
So it's perhaps not a total surprise that Kaplan was defensive.
The bigger picture -- women authors (not) being cited proportionately,
or even being actively "erased", as well as broader online sexist
behaviour[fn1] -- would be well worth discussing but to me the Frek
Kaplan / Meryl Alper debate looks like it is only tangentially connected
with the deeper issues.
A counterfactual thought experiment: if Stephanie R. Schulte
(frauricker) had in fact been male, how would that have changed the
situation?
I'd suggest we zoom to the "big picture" to get some more context.
E.g.
«We find that in the most productive countries, all articles with women
in dominant author positions receive fewer citations than those with men
in the same positions. And this citation disadvantage is accentuated by
the fact that women's publication portfolios are more domestic than
their male colleagues — they profit less from the extra citations that
international collaborations accrue.»
http://www.nature.com/news/bibliometrics-global-gender-disparities-in-science-1.14321
With regards,
Joe
[fn1]: just watched this related lecture yesterday,
http://boingboing.net/2016/02/22/sarah-jeongs-harvard-lecture.html
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