If you teach methods
and statistics courses, organize talks or symposia on good research practices,
or simply want to read some good papers, check out this OSF page with a list of papers
on research methods. Inspired by recent illustrations of the gender
imbalance in contributors
to special issues on how to improve research methods, and the gender imbalance
in speakers in symposia on good research practices, a group of people came
together to create a list of research methods papers first-authored by women.
Feel free to contribute suggestions for papers not yet included, or join the Mendeley
group created by Kirstie Whitaker to keep track of new additions. You might be able to
use the list as inspiration when creating your course syllabus on research
methods, or when inviting speakers for a symposium on good research practices.
Below is the description of
the list, copied from the wiki page on the OSF, and written by Michael Kane:
This
document began in light of thoughtful blog posts (e.g., Ledgerwood, Haines, & Ratliff; Jussim & Vazire) -- and a lengthy and impassioned discussion thread
on the ISCON Facebook page -- about the lack of diversity of voices in current
debates about best practices in psychological research. Upon reading these, I
nervously opened the pdf of the syllabus for my graduate research course on
psychological research methods (PSY 624). Only 1 of the 40-some required primary articles
featured a female lead author. I’m embarrassed to say that this had never
occurred to me, despite my teaching a course in which about 70% of the students
were women. I now note that, not only have the graduate students in my
department had all of their formal instruction in methods and stats delivered
by professors who are men, but virtually all the voices they’ve read in my
course have also been men’s. Although many of our students are expertly
mentored in research by faculty advisors who are women, I am concerned that I
have deprived them of additional role models.
I tweeted (@kane_WMC_lab) about my syllabus and
started a conversation with Rogier Kievit (@rogierK) and Sanjay
Srivastava (@hardsci),
in which we estimated that the lack of diversity in my syllabus was also likely
true of many others. Rogier suggested to me a few nice papers by female lead
authors that I should check out, and then had the wonderful idea to start a
crowdsourced list of other work that more instructors and beginning students of
research methods should be aware of.
Such a list is important for several reasons. For
example, recent empirical research (Malinak et al., Sugimoto et al.) shows that women are half as likely to be first
author of a paper, and even when they do take up leading author positions, they
are consistently cited less than men, all else being equal
The list is available at the References
List by Topic link;
most of the initial entries were provided by Rogier Kievit (@rogierK), Jessica Logan (@jarlogan),
and Kirstie Whitaker(@kirstie_j),
with help from Michael Kane and
Daniel Lakens (@lakens). This is a public document that we hope will grow to
include dozens of papers that faculty and students alike may benefit from
reading. To access any of these articles you're interested in, please join the
linked Mendeley
Group established by Kirstie Whitaker.
Via comments on the main page of this project (see the blue speech-bubble icon in
the upper right corner), please add citations to your favorite articles,
chapters, or books about psychological research methods and design, data
interpretation, philosophy of science, or “best practices” written by women.
We'll aim to incorporate suggested citations into the main list soon after they're
suggested.
Ideally
this list will focus on those articles that may be especially germane to
introductory graduate courses.
-- Michael J. Kane (with Rogier Kievit, Daniel Lakens,
Jessica Logan, Brian Nosek, Sanjay Srivastava, Simine Vazire, & Kirstie Whitaker)
Sugimoto, C. R., Lariviere, V., Ni, C. Q., Gingras,
Y., & Cronin, B. (2013). Bibliometrics: Global gender disparities in science.
Nature, 504(7479), 211-213.
Maliniak,
D., Powers, R., & Walter, B. F. (2013). The gender citation gap in
international relations. International
Organization, 67(04), 889-922.
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