Mary Frank Fox

About

Mary Frank Fox is the Dean's Distinguished Professor at the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. She also serves as the Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Women, Science & Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her professional role involves leadership within the School of Public Policy and active engagement in research related to women, science, and technology, contributing to academic and policy discussions in these fields.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Social Science
• Computer Science
• Social psychology
• Economics
• Demographic economics
• Medicine
• Engineering

Selected publications

• Being highly prolific in academic science: characteristics of individuals and their departments

  Higher Education · 2020 · 63 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  Abstract The prolific (exceptionally high producers of scholarly publications) are strategic to the study of academic science. The highly prolific have been drivers of research activity and impact and are a window into the stratification that exists. For these reasons, we address key characteristics associated with being highly prolific. Doing this, we take a social-organizational approach and use distinctive survey data on both social characteristics of scientists and features of their departme…

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• Women, Men, and Academic Performance in Science and Engineering: The Gender Difference in Undergraduate Grade Point Averages

  The Journal of Higher Education · 2012-01-01 · 57 citations

  articleSenior author

  Using longitudinal and multi-institutional data, this article takes an innovative approach in its analyses of gender differences in grade point averages (GPA) among undergraduate students in biology, the physical sciences, and engineering over a 16-year period. Assessed are hypotheses about (a) the gender ecology of science/engineering and (b) the structural advantage of the presence of programs for women.

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• 10 Women and Scientific Careers

  2012-04-30 · 50 citations

  book-chapter1st authorCorresponding
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• Gender, science, and academic rank: Key issues and approaches

  Quantitative Science Studies · 2020 · 46 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  In the social study of science, gender is a critical research site because relations of gender are hierarchical and inequality is a central feature of science. The focus here is on a key dimension of gender and scientific careers: academic rank, particularly that of full professor. This article concentrates on quantitative and qualitative approaches that have occurred in two focal problem areas related to gender, science, and rank: collaboration patterns and evaluative practices. The approaches…

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• Gender and Clarity of Evaluation among Academic Scientists in Research Universities

  Science Technology & Human Values · 2014-12-24 · 42 citations

  article1st authorCorresponding

  This article addresses a telling issue in academic science: the clarity of criteria for tenure and promotion reported by women and men faculty in scientific fields. Data from faculty surveyed in nine US research universities point to ways that formal and informal organizational indicators predict the clarity of evaluation reported by women and men. Unexpected patterns occur by gender. Among men, both formal and informal organizational indicators, as well as field, predict their reported clarity…

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Recent grants

• EAGER: The Transmission Zone Between the Producers and Consumers of Knowledge About Women in Science and Engineering

  NSF · $300k · 2010–2013

Frequent coauthors

• Catherine A. Faver

  The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

  15 shared

• Gerhard Sonnert

  Harvard University Press

  6 shared

• Carolina Cañibano

  5 shared

• Carol Colatrella

  4 shared

• Coleen Shannon

  3 shared

• Mary Lynn Realff

  Georgia Institute of Technology

  3 shared

• John M. Braxton

  Vanderbilt University

  3 shared

• F. Javier Otamendi

  Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

  3 shared

Labs

• Mary Frank Fox LabPI

Awards & honors

• Section Star from the Science, Knowledge, and Technology Sec…
• Gender Equity Award at Georgia Tech (2016)
• Ivan Allen College Distinguished Research Award (2017)
• Faculty of the Year Award of the Student Government Associat…
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sc…

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