Gender differences in how scientists present the importance of their research: observational study

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Authors: Marc J. Lerchenmueller, Olav Sorenson and Anupam B. Jena

Women remain underrepresented on faculties of medicine and the life sciences more broadly. Whether gender differences in self presentation of clinical research exist and may contribute to this gender gap has been challenging to explore empirically. The objective of this study was to analyze whether men and women differ in how positively they frame their research findings and to analyze whether the positive framing of research is associated with higher downstream citations.

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