2 papers
cs.CY2025
Investigating individual writing style as a contributor to gender gaps in science and technology
Kara Kedrick, Ekaterina Levitskaya, Russell J. Funk
Gender gaps in how scientific work is evaluated are well documented, but their sources remain debated. We ask whether an overlooked factor---the linguistic style of the writing its…
cs.SI2024
Conceptual structure and the growth of scientific knowledge
Kara Kedrick, Ekaterina Levitskaya, Russell J. Funk
How does scientific knowledge grow? This question has occupied a central place in the philosophy of science, stimulating heated debates, but yielding no clear consensus. Many expla…