{"paper_id":"37d9c757-c02f-4cf8-afcc-2aa0a0171ead","body_text":"Downloads\nDownload Preprint\nAuthors\nTatsuya Amano,\nValeria Ramírez-Castañeda ,\nVioleta Berdejo-Espinola,\nIsrael Borokini,\nShawan Chowdhury ,\nMarina Golivets,\nJuan David González-Trujillo,\nFlavia Montaño-Centellas,\nKumar Paudel,\nRachel Louise White,\nDiogo Veríssimo\nAbstract\nScientific communities need to understand and eliminate barriers that prevent scientists from reaching their full potential. However, the combined impact of individuals’ linguistic, economic, and gender backgrounds on their scientific productivity is poorly understood. Using a survey of 908 environmental scientists, we show that being a woman is associated with up to a 45% reduction in the number of English-language publications, compared to men. Being a non-native English speaker from a low-income country is associated with a further 25% reduction. The linguistic and economic productivity gap narrows when based on the total number of English- and non-English-language publications. We call for an explicit effort to consider linguistic, economic, and gender backgrounds and incorporate non-English-language publications when assessing the performance and contribution of scientists.\nDOI\nhttps://doi.org/10.32942/X2F914\nSubjects\nEnvironmental Studies\nKeywords\nEquity, inequality, Diversity, Inclusion, language barriers, economic barriers, gender indentity, under-represented group, scientific productivity\nDates\nPublished: 2024-11-01 05:07\nLicense\nCC BY Attribution 4.0 International\nAdditional Metadata\nConflict of interest statement:\nNone\nData and Code Availability Statement:\nWe are unable to make data on participants’ responses to the survey questions publicly available, as per our agreement with the University of Queensland Ethics office (committee: Science Low and Negligible Risk Committee, approval number: 2021/HE000566) and due to the confidentiality of the data. All codes used in the analysis are available at: https://osf.io/w6cu3.\nLanguage:\nEnglish","source_license":"CC-BY-4.0","license_restricted":false}