The research, published in the journal Annals of Psychology, has studied scientific production in Educational Psychology between 2008 and 2018 and concludes that, although the number of researchers in the field of Educational Psychology has increased and already exceeds the number of men who publish, men publish even more articles per person. During the period analysed, there was an increase in scientific production, the number of signatory researchers and the presence of women researchers among them –from 156 to 387.

According to Julia Haba, a researcher in the Department of English and German Philology, “gender studies help to highlight the relevant role of women in science and are a way to highlight researchers and achieve effective equality between men and women”.

Between 2008 and 2018, 935 research papers were published with a total of 3,304 signatures from 1949 authors, of which 56.54% (1,100 researchers) are women compared to 41.92% (817 authors) who are men. At first, men signed more articles than women, but over the years, women have put themselves at the forefront of scientific publication in Educational Psychology. With the exception of 2008 and 2011, women have published more articles than men.

Francisco González, researcher at the Department of Evolutionary Psychology and Education, also emphasises that in the coming years “there must be a change in the dynamics of scientific production in this area of Psychology, with a greater presence of women among the major producers, which must have its correlate in a greater presence as university professors and in the positions of management of scientific journals in the area of Educational Psychology”.

The results obtained in the research show that women are still in a position of inequality with respect to men. For example, of a total of 70.55% of transitional authors – they signed an article and did not republish it 72.55% are women.

Data on large producers – published 8 or more works – point in the same direction. Among the major producers there are more men than women, although women have increased their presence over previous periods. Among the producing media – they published between 2 and 7 works –, however, there are more women than men.

The methodology applied for this work has consisted of the search through the Web of Science website of all the works published on Educational Psychology in Spain between 2008 and 2018 in the journals present in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) database.

Article:

González-Sala, F., Haba-Osca, J. & Osca-Lluch, J. (2021). La investigación española en psicología educativa desde una perspectiva de género (2008-2018). Anales de psicología / Annals of Psychology, 37(1), 44-50. https://doi.org/10.6018/analesps.399871