Gender and Web visibility of Spanish university scholars: a case study of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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https://doi.org/10.3989/redc.2009.2.677Keywords:
visibility, webometrics, gender studies, bibliometrics, Internet, professors, universityAbstract
This work analyses how Spanish university scholars are adopting the use of the Internet, focusing on the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. The web visibility of the works published by the university’s scholars was examined, and a comparison made of the observed gender pattern with that apparent in bibliometric studies. The publications of 289 of the university’s associate professors that appeared in 2006 were examined, as was their possession —or not— of a personal Web page, and whether the academic repository of the university (Complutense E-Prints) contained at least one of their works. The number of scholars with a personal page was very low; those of the Social Sciences and Humanities were better represented. Women scholars were more poorly represented than men in this respect. Also, the amount of work, deposited in the E-Prints repository was found to be very low. No differences were seen between men and women with respect to visibility.
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