Marginalized and Overlooked? Minoritized Groups and the Adoption of New Scientific Ideas
研究利用生物医学研究者数据，发现女性科学家提出的新思想被采纳较少，原因包括女性创新者人脉较少以及研究者（尤其是男性）在短网络距离内更少采纳女性思想，类似差距也存在于种族和民族少数群体。
The diffusion and use of new ideas is critical for producing innovations and realizing their potential. We explore how characteristics of innovators and potential adopters affect the adoption of important, new scientific ideas in networks. Using rich data on biomedical researchers and their networks, natural language processing, and a novel two-way fixed effects strategy, we find that new ideas introduced by female scientists are underutilized for two reasons. First, female innovators are less connected than men. Second, at short network distances, researchers (especially men) adopt women’s ideas less. Similar gaps hold for underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities.