The international publisher Elsevier (the international publisher Elsevier) has seen a 12-4% increase in the proportion of female researchers in the 11 major countries and regions of the world, with the same number of citations and downloads as male researchers. Headquarters, Amsterdam) I found out in the summary.
Elsevier has research achievements in 27 fields such as medical and life sciences and the ratio of men and women in 12 major countries and regions around the world such as Japan, the United States, the European Union (EU), Australia and Canada, 1996-2000 and 2011-2015. We compared two periods of the year.
According to the report, female researchers accounted for more than 1996% of all researchers in 2000-40, but in 2011-2015, it was in nine countries and regions such as the United States, the United Kingdom, the EU, and Brazil. It spread.However, Japan, Chile and Mexico have not reached 9%.
Although the number of papers published by women tends to be smaller than that of men in all countries and regions, the number of citations and downloads of papers is the same, and the influence of research is balanced between men and women.Females were less likely to travel internationally, were less likely to engage in international collaborative research than males, and were less likely to collaborate with industry than males.
In Japan, the proportion of females is only one-fifth that of researchers, but the average number of academic papers per researcher is higher for females than for males.
Dr. Holly Folk-Klezinsky of Elsevier said, "Funded participation in research is gradual but steadily progressing. This is due to the increasing momentum of national efforts to encourage female participation in research. "A manifestation of."
