Top research universities face up to gender bias

Research-agenda Bias: letters to the editor

A framework to analyse gender bias in epidemiological research.

The design and analysis of research may cause systematic gender dependent errors to be produced in results because of gender insensitivity or androcentrism. Gender bias in research could be defined as a systematically erroneous gender dependent approach related to social construct, which incorrectly regards women and men as similar/different. Most gender bias can be found in the context of disc...

Accounting for gender research performance differences in ranking universities

CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 109, NO. 10, 25 NOVEMBER 2015 1783 Giovanni Abramo is in the Laboratory for Studies of Research and Technology Transfer, Institute for System Analysis and Computer Science, National Research Council of Italy, Via del Taurini 19, 00185 Rome, Italy; Ciriaco Andrea D’Angelo is in the Department of Engineering and Management, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Via del Politecni...

Teaching-Research Nexus in the World’s Top Universities: a Review Study with Presenting a Conceptual Model

Introduction: Teaching-Research Nexus (TRN) is one of the most fundamental issues in higher education management. This issue faces greater challenges in Iranian universities of medical sciences due to their more complex structure and obligations in contrast to universities under the supervision of Ministry of Science. Therefore, this study tried to design an appropriate model of teaching-resear...

An Observation of Research Complexity in Top Universities Based on Research Publications

This paper investigates research specialisation of top ranked universities around the world. The revealed comparative advantage in different research fields are determined according to the number of research articles published. Subsequently, measures of research ubiquity and diversity, and research complexity index of each university, are obtained and discussed. The study is conducted on top-ra...