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Weihua Li

@weihuali.bsky.social

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Professor of data science. Science of science, networks. Beihang University, Beijing.

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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Out now in @natphys.nature.com "The undervaluing of elite women in physics", with @weihuali.bsky.social and H Zheng, we show how election into prestigious academic societies has markedly different effects on the research prominence of women and men physicists /1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Screenshot of the top of the paper "The undervaluing of elite women in physics",
Abstract: "Elite women in physics wait longer than
men for recognition. Once elected to the US National Academy of Sciences, however, their prominence surges — evidence that their work was undervalued all along."
Body: "Physics has changed dramatically over the past 50 years, both in the range of phenomena it studies and its demographic composition. For example, the share of publishing women physicists worldwide has more than doubled — from 4.5% in 1970 to 9.2% in 2020 — and continues to increase. Yet parity remains distant, raising the question: to what degree has the physics community progressed toward the meritocratic ideal of recognizing scientists purely on the basis of their contributions?

We address this question in two ways. First, we compare broad trends in the productivity and prominence of men and women physi- cists worldwide over the past 50 years. Second, we examine the careers of elite physicists, asking whether the high honour of being elected to the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) impacts the careers of men and women in physics differently. Our analysis leverages a recently developed Bayesian network model1 to estimate individual measures of scientific productivity and prominence from large-scale bibliographic data. We apply this model to a global physics collaboration network constructed from first- and last-author pairs in 9.1 million physics journal articles (omitting single-author papers) published between 1950 and 2023 and recorded in the OpenAlex bibliographic database. Within this global network, we focus on 93,456 established physicists with at least 30 years between their first and most recent publication and with at least 10 first- or last-author publications..."

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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

🎉 Our new paper "Gender and racial diversity socialization in science" @natcomputsci.nature.com with @weihuali.bsky.social, H Zheng and @jenniebrand.bsky.social studies how early-career experiences with diversity drive more diverse teams later in a career 👉 /1 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Nature Computational Science @natcomputsci.nature.com · 17/04/2025

📢Out now! Weihua Li, @jenniebrand.bsky.social, @aaronclauset.bsky.social, and colleagues show that researchers’ early training in diverse environments is strongly correlated with nurturing diverse groups in the established period. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #cssky #NetSci

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Gender and racial diversity socialization in science - Nature Computational Science

A computational null model is proposed to study the gender and racial diversity-association effects in academia. Researchers’ early training in diverse environments is strongly correlated with nurturi...

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