研究发现团队性别多样性对科研影响力呈倒U型关系,领导层全女性+支持层全男性组合效果最佳。
The Effect of Gender Diversity on Scientific Team Impact: A Team Roles Perspective
- 按角色区分性别构成,分析13万篇论文的影响力
- 领导层与支持层性别多样性均呈倒U型影响,全女性领导+全男性支持组影响力最高
- 小团队中领导层性别多样性负面影响显著,大团队则转为正面但不显著
科学团队的性别多样性对科研成果的影响备受关注,但以往研究结果不一,且多以整体多样性衡量,忽视了内部角色差异。本文将论文所有合作者视为一个团队,以五年引用次数衡量团队影响力,基于作者贡献声明将成员划分为领导与支持角色。利用来自PLOS期刊的超过13万篇论文(多属生物医学领域),采用多元回归分析性别多样性在不同角色中的影响,并运用阈值回归模型探讨团队规模的调节作用。结果显示:(1) 领导与支持组的性别多样性与团队影响力均呈倒U型关系;(2) 全女性领导组+全男性支持组的团队影响力高于其他类型;(3) 领导组性别多样性在小团队中显著为负,大团队中转为正但不显著;而支持组性别多样性始终显著为正,不受团队规模影响。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The influence of gender diversity on the success of scientific teams is of great interest to academia. However, prior findings remain inconsistent, and most studies operationalize diversity in aggregate terms, overlooking internal role differentiation. This limitation obscures a more nuanced understanding of how gender diversity shapes team impact. In particular, the effect of gender diversity across different team roles remains poorly understood. To this end, we define a scientific team as all coauthors of a paper and measure team impact through five-year citation counts. Using author contribution statements, we classified members into leadership and support roles. Drawing on more than 130,000 papers from PLOS journals, most of which are in biomedical-related disciplines, we employed multivariable regression to examine the association between gender diversity in these roles and team impact. Furthermore, we apply a threshold regression model to investigate how team size moderates this relationship. The results show that (1) the relationship between gender diversity and team impact follows an inverted U-shape for both leadership and support groups; (2) teams with an all-female leadership group and an all-male support group achieve higher impact than other team types. Interestingly, (3) the effect of leadership-group gender diversity is significantly negative for small teams but becomes positive and statistically insignificant in large teams. In contrast, the estimates for support-group gender diversity remain significant and positive, regardless of team size.
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