Men more likely to describe their research as ‘excellent’
Study shows papers with male lead authors are up to 21% more likely to use positive framing
Male researchers are more likely than their female counterparts to use superlatives like ‘first’ or ‘novel’ to describe their work, a new study suggests.
The team analysed the language used in more than six million papers in peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals to see how often the findings were described with any of 25 words that have positive connotations such as ‘excellent’, ‘unique’, ‘promising’ and ‘remarkable’.
