Scientists are told that they must publish or perish – unless their work regularly appears in reputable journals their careers will wither.
However, a new study suggests that attitudes differ between the sexes: that women researchers are likelier to contribute more to the public good by making their findings easily accessible, while their male counterparts focus on boosting their own reputations.
The work looked at how researchers – in this case, economists – reacted to changes in how academic papers were published in Germany.
Amid a dispute over costs, two of the biggest science publishers – Wiley and Springer Nature – agreed to a radical overhaul of how they earn money from Germany’s universities. As a result, most papers published by German researchers were made
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