Replication Data for: Explaining Gender Gap Variation in Political Science Knowledge Production

If we open a random political science journal, we have a roughly two to one chance that the article is written by a man. Beyond this general finding, we know very little about the gender gaps within political science knowledge production: are women more represented in lower or higher ranked journals? Do they publish more single- or multi-author papers? Do they publish more content in some fields than in others? Analysing an original dataset based on the International Political Science Abstracts from 2022 comprising more than 7000 articles and more than 13,000 authors in political science from around the world, this article provides answers to these questions. We find no difference in the percentage of female authors between more highly ranked and lower-ranked journals. We find a slightly higher propensity among women to publish in teams. When it comes to subfields of study, women are particularly underrepresented in the field of political theory, where women only publish 21.6 percent of all published articles, which is a deviation of roughly 12 percentage points from the overall average.