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Letter: Seeking research on a gender effect in research

Published 17 January 2018

From Crad Allerton, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK

I enjoyed the Christmas edition this year, so thank you all. Some articles involve thinking about why creatures behave in certain ways (23/30 December 2017, p 69), or how hominins behaved in the distant past (p 32). This makes me wonder: does the gender mix of a research team affect the ideas or interpretations it generates? In business, mixed teams work as well as or better than single-sex teams. Has anyone analysed the make-up of the most-cited research teams?

Issue no. 3161 published 20 January 2018

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