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See, for example, Hadas Shema, “What's Wrong with Citation Analysis,” Information Culture (blog), Scientific American, January 1, 2013, http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/information-culture/2013/01/01/whats-wrong-with-citation-analysis.

Brendan Watson and Daniel Riffe, “Who Submits Work to JMCQ and Why? A Demographic Profile and Belief Summary,” Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 9, no. 1 (2014): 5–16.

US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, “The Condition of Education 2012,” Indicator 47, nces.ed.gov; Lee Becker, Tudor Vlad, and Holly Anne Simpson, “2012 Annual Survey of Journalism and Mass Communication Enrollments: Enrollments Decline for Second Year in a Row,” Journalism and Mass Communication Educator 68, no. 4 (2014): 318.

Jevin D. West et al., “The Role of Gender in Scholarly Authorship,” PLoS ONE 8, no. 7: e66212, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066212.

Greg Tower, Julie Plummer, and Brenda Ridgewell, “A Multidisciplinary Study of Gender-Based Research Productivity in the World's Best Journals,” Journal of Diversity Management 2, no. 4 (2007): 25–26. Scholars have identified numerous factors affecting women and minority scholars’ productivity. See, for example, Jonathan R. Cole and Burton Singer, “A Theory of Limited Differences: Explaining the Productivity Puzzle in Science,” in The Outer Circle: Women in the Scientific Community, ed. Harriet Zuckerman, Jonathan R. Cole, and John T. Bruer (New York: W. W. Norton, 1991), 277–310; Nicholas H. Wolfinger, Mary Ann Mason, and Marc Goulden, “Problems in the Pipeline: Gender, Marriage, and Fertility in the Ivory Tower,” Journal of Higher Education 79, no. 4 (2008): 388–405; Sheila T. Gregory, “Black Women in the Academy: Challenges and Opportunities,” Journal of Negro Education 70, no. 3 (2001): 124–138; and Carole Blair, Julie R. Brown, and Leslie A. Baxter, “Disciplining the Feminine,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 80, no. 4 (1994): 383–409.

See Robin Wilson, “Lowered Cites,” Chronicle of Higher Education, March 17, 2014.

Linda Grant and Kathryn B. Ward, “Gender and Publishing in Sociology,” Gender and Society 5, no. 2 (1991): 207–223.

Daniel Maliniak, Ryan Powers, and Barbara Walter, “The Gender Citation Gap in International Relations,” International Organization 67, no. 4 (October 2013): 889–922.

Richard Delgado, “The Imperial Scholar: Reflections on a Review of Civil Rights Literature,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 132, no. 3 (1984): 563.

Maliniak, Powers, and Walter, “The Gender Citation Gap in International Relations.”

See, for example, Susan Q. Stranahan, “Susan Estrich on Gender, Missing Voices, and That Nasty Email,” Columbia Journalism Review, February 25, 2005, www.cjr.org; Anne Johnston, Barbara Friedman, and Sara Peach, “Standpoint in Political Blogs: Voice, Authority, and Issues,” Women's Studies 40, no. 3 (2011): 269–298.

A rudimentary analysis of citations in American Journalism and Journalism History to “relevant theorists” yielded only one female scholar—Gaye Tuchman. See John Nerone, “Does Journalism History Matter?,” American Journalism 28, no. 4 (2011): 14–15.

Women comprise 41 percent of the current membership of the American Journalism Historians Association.

Herbert Snyder and Susan Bonzi, “Patterns of Self-Citation across Disciplines, 1980–1989,” Journal of Information Science 24, no. 6 (1998): 431–435.

Julianne Buchsbaum, “Academic Libraries and the Remaking of the Canon: Implications for Collection Development Libraries,” Library Philosophy and Practice (June 2009): 2.

See, for example, Meta DuEwa Jones and Keith D. Leonard, “Editors’ Introduction: Verse Center: Form, Multiplicity, and Subjectivity in Multi-Ethnic Poetics,” MELIUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US 35, no. 2 (Summer 2010): 7–15, in which the authors cite the absence of poets from discussions about multiethnic contributions to the American literary canon.

See, in particular, John Nerone, “Does Journalism History Matter?,” American Journalism 28, no. 4 (2011): 7–27; Amber Roessner, Rick Popp, Brian Creech, and Fred Blevens, “‘A Measure of Theory?’: Considering the Role of Theory in Media History,” American Journalism 30, no. 2 (Spring 2013): 260–278; and “Theorizing Journalism in Time,” American Journalism 30, no. 1 (Winter 2013): 3–43, a special section featuring an introduction by Kathy Roberts Forde and essays by Rodney Benson, John Nerone, Michael Schudson, and Tim P. Vos.

Delgado, “The Imperial Scholar,” 568.

Ibid., 573.