TY - T1 - Collaboration enhances career progression in academic science, especially for female researchers SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/334393 T3 - A1 - van der Wal, Jessica E. M.; Thorogood, Rose; Horrocks, Nicholas P. C. A2 - PB - Y1 - 2021 LA - eng AB - Collaboration and diversity are increasingly promoted in science. Yet how collaborations influence academic career progression, and whether this differs by gender, remains largely unknown. Here, we use co-authorship ego networks to quantify collaboration behaviour and career progression of a cohort of contributors to biennial International Society of Behavioral Ecology meetings (1992, 1994, 1996). Among this cohort, women were slower and less likely to become a principal investigator (PI; approx... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - bibliometrics; collaboration networks; gender gap; academic survival; sociality; GENDER-DIFFERENCES; WOMEN; IMPACT; REGRESSION; ECOLOGY; LIFE; TIES; 5141 Sociology N1 - PP - ER -