Open science, communal culture, and women’s participation in the movement to improve science

Abstract

= 2,926 articles and conference proceedings). Network analyses suggest that the open science and reproducibility literatures are emerging relatively independently of each other, sharing few common papers or authors. We next examine whether the literatures differentially incorporate collaborative, prosocial ideals that are known to engage members of underrepresented groups more than independent, winner-takes-all approaches. We find that open science has a more connected, collaborative structure than does reproducibility. Semantic analyses of paper abstracts reveal that these literatures have adopted different cultural frames: open science includes more explicitly communal and prosocial language than does reproducibility. Finally, consistent with literature suggesting the diversity benefits of communal and prosocial purposes, we find that women publish more frequently in high-status author positions (first or last) within open science (vs. reproducibility). Furthermore, this finding is further patterned by team size and time. Women are more represented in larger teams within reproducibility, and women's participation is increasing in open science over time and decreasing in reproducibility. We conclude with actionable suggestions for cultivating a more prosocial and diverse culture of science.

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Mary C. Murphy, Amanda F. Mejia, Jorge Mejia, Xiaoran Yan, Sapna Cheryan, Nilanjana Dasgupta, … Franco Pestilli (2020). Open science, communal culture, and women’s participation in the movement to improve science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1921320117

@article{c2020open,
  title  = {Open science, communal culture, and women’s participation in the movement to improve science},
  author = {Murphy, Mary C. and Mejia, Amanda F. and Mejia, Jorge and Yan, Xiaoran and Cheryan, Sapna and Dasgupta, Nilanjana and Destin, Mesmin and Fryberg, Stephanie A. and García, Julie A. and Haines, Elizabeth L. and Harackiewicz, Judith M. and Ledgerwood, Alison and Moss-Racusin, Corinne Alison and Park, Lora E. and Perry, Sylvia and Ratliff, Kate A. and Rattan, Aneeta and Sanchez, Diana T. and Savani, Krishna and Sekaquaptewa, Denise and Smith, Jessi L. and Taylor, Valerie Jones and Thoman, Dustin B. and Wout, Daryl Anthony and Mabry, Patricia L. and Ressl, Susanne and Diekman, Amanda B. and Pestilli, Franco},
  year   = {2020},
  journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
  doi    = {10.1073/pnas.1921320117}
}

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