In the field of neuroscience, despite the fact that the proportion of peer-reviewed publications authored by women has increased in recent decades, the proportion of citations of women-led publications has not seen a commensurate increase: In five broad-scope journals, citations of papers first- and/or last-authored by women have been shown to be fewer than would be expected if gender was not a factor in citation decisions (Dworkin et al., 2020). Given the important implications that such underrepresentation may have on the careers of women researchers, it is important to determine whether this same trend is true in subdisciplines of the field, where interventions might be more effective. Here, we report the results of an extension of the analyses carried out by Dworkin et al. (2020) to citation patterns in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (JoCN). The results indicate that the underrepresentation of women-led publications in reference sections is also characteristic of papers published in JoCN over the past decade. Furthermore, this pattern of citation imbalances is present for all gender classes of authors, implicating systemic factors. These results contribute to the growing body of evidence that intentional action is needed to address inequities in the way that we carry out and communicate our science.

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认知神经科学中引用实践中的性别（失衡）

在神经科学领域，尽管最近几十年来由女性撰写的经过同行评审的出版物的比例有所增加，但由女性主导的出版物的引用比例却没有相应增加：在五种广泛的期刊中，引用率如果性别不是引文决定的因素，则由女性第一作者和/或最后作者撰写的论文的数量要少于预期的数量（Dworkin等，2020）。考虑到这种代表性不足可能对女性研究人员的职业产生重要影响，因此重要的是要确定该趋势在该领域的子学科中是否正确，在这些学科中干预措施可能更有效。在这里，我们报告了Dworkin等人进行的分析的扩展结果。（2020）引用《认知神经科学杂志》（JoCN）中的引用方式。结果表明，在过去的十年中，女性主导的出版物在参考文献中的代表性不足也是JoCN发表的论文的特征。此外，所有性别类别的作者都存在这种引文失衡的模式，这牵涉到系统性因素。这些结果促使越来越多的证据表明，需要采取有意识的行动来解决我们开展和交流科学的方式中的不平等现象。