The Gender Citation Gap in International Relations

Abstract This article investigates the extent to which citation and publication patterns differ between men and women in the international relations (IR) literature. Using data from the Teaching, Research, and International Policy project on peer-reviewed publications between 1980 and 2006, we show that women are systematically cited less than men after controlling for a large number of variables including year of publication, venue of publication, substantive focus, theoretical perspective, methodology, tenure status, and institutional affiliation. These results are robust to a variety of modeling choices. We then turn to network analysis to investigate the extent to which the gender of an article's author…

• NS
  National Science Foundation

  Awards: 0718123, DGE-0718123
• AP
  American Political Science Association
• PU
  Princeton University
• UO
  University of Cambridge