November 4, 2022, Shanghai, China – At the 5th World Top Scientists Forum "She" Forum, the scientific research evaluation laboratory jointly built by the Literature and Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the world's leading information analysis company Esevier , jointly released the first research report to interpret China's scientific research ecology from a gender perspective - "Portrait of Chinese Scientific Researchers from a Gender Perspective" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report"). The report analyzes the scientific research outputs of more than 160,000 Chinese scientific researchers from the gender dimension from 2005 to 2019, and combines the paper data in the Elsevier Scopus database to comprehensively and accurately analyze the current status of Chinese female scientists from multiple dimensions such as academic influence, field characteristics, scientific research roles, scientific research cooperation, and scientific fund applications. The report shows that gender differences in China's scientific research field have gradually improved, and female researchers have made progress in scientific research participation and academic influence; in various disciplines, the gender differences among Chinese scientific researchers are gradually weakening, especially the female ratio of life sciences and medicine fields is the closest. In the future, female researchers should assume more of the leading role in scientific research and give full play to their creativity and influence on the scientific research stage.
Yang Liying, a researcher at the Literature and Intelligence Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Li Lin, President of Elsevier Greater China,
Co-publishing "Portraits of Scientific Researchers from a Gender Perspective"
"At present, more and more Female scientific and technological workers demonstrate extraordinary creativity and influence on the global science and technology stage. However, gender imbalances in the world's scientific research field still exist for a long time, and China is also facing a similar situation. The report "Portraits of Chinese Scientific Researchers from the Gender Perspective" is the first time that the development of Chinese scientific researchers' gender dimensions is revealed in the form of data analysis, making up for the gap in the research on career portraits of Chinese scientific research groups. "Researcher Liu Xiwen, Director of the Literature Information Center and Director of the Joint Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The proportion of female scientific researchers has increased rapidly, and the "her power" of scientific research is booming
Although the scale of male scientific researchers far exceeds that of females at this stage, the proportion of females is increasing rapidly year by year, reflecting the vigorous development trend of "her power". Judging from the changes in the proportion of male and female scientific researchers, the proportion of female scientific researchers in China has increased from 13% in 2005 to 27.7% in 2019, an increase of 14.7 percentage points, and more and more female scientific researchers are participating in scientific research activities.
The situation is improving on the issue of "workplace ceiling" for female scientific researchers, and the difference between women and men in professional title promotion is gradually narrowing. From 2008 to 2017, the ratio of male and female male rank in China dropped from 5.47 to 3.92, and the intermediate professional title dropped from 1.94 to 1.57, indicating that the disadvantages of Chinese female scientific researchers in the promotion of job ranks are gradually improving, and their competitiveness in the workplace is constantly strengthening.
The gender difference between is gradually weakening, and women perform better in the fields of life sciences and medicine
A gratifying discovery is that more and more Chinese female scientific researchers are actively investing in research in various disciplines and fields, and the gender differences selected in different scientific research fields are gradually weakening. Compared with 2005-2009, the proportion of men and women in each discipline has a significant decline from 2015-2019, and the proportion of men and women in the fields of life sciences and medicine is the closest.
In terms of academic influence, gender differences are not significant. Taking the academic output from 2015 to 2019 as an example, the influencing index score of male papers was 1.22, while the same period was 1.13 for women, with a small difference, which reflects that the scientific research results of females received roughly the same attention as those of men, revealing that "her power" plays an indispensable role in scientific research.Specifically for different disciplines, women perform better than other fields in life sciences and medicine, especially in neuroscience and pharmacology ; while in the fields of material science, computer science, engineering technology, etc., women's academic influence is still lower than that of men.
Women are good at teamwork in scientific research and should play a more leading role
In scientific research projects, women have obvious advantages in communication and communication, and are better at teamwork. Therefore, the scale of the cooperation of female researchers is larger: The report shows that the number of female researchers' paper collaborators is generally more than that of men, and the scale of female-led research teams is also larger than that of men. Male scientific researchers are more active in international cooperation: whether from 2005 to 2009 or 2015 to 2019, compared with female scientific researchers, the international cooperation rate of men is higher. However, from the perspective of development trends, men and women are constantly increasing in their enthusiasm for international cooperation.
In addition, the scientific research roles of men and women have their own emphasis. There are more papers for Chinese male researchers serving as the corresponding author of , than women, while there are more papers for female first authors than men. This shows that men tend to serve as corresponding authors and play an organizational role. Women tend to serve as first authors and perform executive roles.
Using data and insights, scientific researchers show the solid steps on the road to gender equality in China's scientific research community
As the main body of scientific research, scientific researchers play an important role in promoting technological innovation and social development. The gender balance of scientific researchers and the diversity of are conducive to improving innovation capabilities, which has become a consensus in the global scientific research community. As the world's first study to interpret China's scientific research ecology from a gender perspective, the release of the report fills the gap in the research on career portraits of Chinese scientific research groups, shows the great achievements of the Chinese scientific research community on the road to gender equality, and provides quantitative data for the country to follow up on the formulation of corresponding gender balance policies such as promoting the common development of scientific researchers of different genders.
"Through this report, we see that the Chinese scientific research community is moving towards the goal of gender equality in scientific research output, academic influence, etc., and has made remarkable progress. We look forward to seeing more outstanding Chinese women join the ranks of scientific research and assume important roles in research work, and maximize the infinite value of scientific research "her power"." Judy Verses, president of Global Academic and Government Marketing at Elsevier, said "Of course, we know that the path to achieving an inclusive and diverse scientific research ecosystem is not easy. We need to start from data, carefully analyze the status quo and trends, and use precise insights to support our action plan. Adhering to inclusiveness and diversity has always been one of Elsevier's core principles. We look forward to working extensively with partners in China's scientific research ecosystem in the future, and use Elsevier's first-class scientific research data resources such as Scopus database, excellent analysis and insight capabilities to promote more relevant scientific research inclusiveness and diversity decision-making, so that "her" power will bloom more beautifully on the fertile soil of China's scientific research innovation with Elsevier's first-class scientific research data resources such as Scopus database, excellent analysis and insight capabilities, so that more scientific research inclusiveness and diversity can be promoted, so that "her" power will bloom more beautifully on the fertile soil of China's scientific research innovation, and use Elsevier's first-class scientific research data resources such as Scopus database, excellent analysis and insight capabilities to promote more scientific research inclusiveness and diversity, so that "her" power will bloom more beautifully on the fertile soil of China's scientific research innovation, and make the power of "her" bloom more beautifully on the fertile soil of China's scientific research innovation. . ”
advocates the construction of an inclusive and diverse innovation ecosystem and welcomes the era of scientific research "her"
The 5th World Top Scientists Forum, initiated by World Top Scientists Association and co-organized by China Association for Science and Technology and Central Radio and Television Station , brings together top scientists and professionals. This conference held the second "She" forum again, demonstrating the attention of the world's top scientists' association to scientific research. The forum hopes to create a better scientific research environment for the growth of female scientific researchers by gathering wisdom from all parties and actively exploring and practicing, and to enhance the scientific research participation and influence of female scientific researchers.
"Through the "Portrait of Chinese Scientific Researchers from a Gender Perspective", we can see that Chinese female scientific researchers have huge and rapid growth in terms of number, scientific research output, academic influence and scientific research project execution. At the same time, we also deeply understand the opportunities and challenges they are facing. "Yu Licheng, Secretary-General of the Shanghai Center of the World Top Scientists Association, said, "As the global first platform for the report, we not only hope to share these insights with everyone, but also advocate the construction of an inclusive and diverse innovation ecosystem, strengthen the gender balance and diversity of the scientific research group, and encourage more female scientific researchers to play greater value in scientific research, technology development, scientific communication and application, etc.."
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