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- Title
Adopting open access in an emerging country: Is gender inequality a barrier in humanities and social sciences?
- Authors
Vuong, Quan‐Hoang; Nguyen, Huyen Thanh T.; Ho, Manh‐Toan; Nguyen, Minh‐Hoang
- Abstract
The participation of women in Vietnam's social sciences and humanities research has increased during the last several decades. However, they still face various challenges, such as the 'glass ceiling', social stereotypes, low recognition, and underrepresentation. The open‐access (OA) movement, being advocated for connecting science and community and improving scientists' visibility, offers a viable platform to increase participation of female researchers. This research investigated participation of Vietnamese women in 3,122 Social Sciences & Humanities publications during 2008–2019. Results show a rapid increase in female authors during the period, rising from 47.27% to 71.43% of articles having one or more Vietnamese female author. However, the number of women as first authors remained lower than men, with only 397 publications having a female first author. Bayesian analysis showed that although the number of coauthors was positively associated with the likelihood to publish in an OA journal, there was a negative association between Vietnamese female author participation and the likelihood to publish OA, a finding that matched the effect of female contribution from other countries. These findings hint at the gender inequality induced by cultural and socio‐economic factors, and we postulate that the influence of financial and other inequalities may limit the ability of women to take full advantage of OA publication to further their careers. Key points: Participation of female researchers in Vietnam has grown considerably in the past decade, with 71% of OA articles having one or more female authors.Vietnamese men still dominate the first author position in all OA articles, with the exception of articles in hybrid journals where women are on a par with men.Over 60% of OA articles by both male and female authors are published by just 10 publishers.There is a positive association between the number of authors and the likelihood of OA publication—but a negative association with the ratio of female authors.
- Subjects
VIETNAM; LABOR supply; GENDER inequality; OPEN access publishing; MALE authors; BAYESIAN analysis; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; VIETNAMESE people; WOMEN scientists
- Publication
Learned Publishing, 2021, Vol 34, Issue 4, p487
- ISSN
0953-1513
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/leap.1387