Citational politics: Quantifying the influence of gender on citation in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Academic Article

abstract

• Abstract Using citation analysis, we consider the role of gender in citation practices in conference special issues of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. Our examination of citations in Digital Humanities conference special issues from 2006 to 2015 demonstrates gender bias in citational practices. This bias is consistent with broader trends in citational politics across the academy more broadly but is a threat to equity and justice within the scholarly community. We further offer proposals for improving citational practices to resist gender bias. Quantifying the impact of gender on citations, we argue, is one approach to understanding gender inequalities within digital humanities communities and to generating solutions to promote the broadest representation of digital humanities scholarship in scholarly communications.

authors

• Earhart, Amy

published proceedings

• Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

altmetric score

• 23.75

author list (cited authors)

• Earhart, A. E., Risam, R., & Bruno, M.

citation count

• 7

complete list of authors

• Earhart, Amy E||Risam, Roopika||Bruno, Matthew

publication date

• 2020

publisher

• Oxford University Press (OUP)  Publisher

published in

• Digital Scholarship in the Humanities  Journal

keywords

• 47 Language, Communication And Culture
• 52 Psychology
• Digital Humanities, Gender

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1093/llc/fqaa011

URI

• https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/192357

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaa011