Hochberg, Yael V.; Kakhbod, Ali; Li, Peiyao; Sachdeva, Kunal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
document that patents authored by female inventors are under-cited relative to those authored by males. Relative to what the … same patent would be predicted to receive had the lead inventor instead been male, patents with a female lead inventor … receive 10% fewer citations. Patents with male lead inventors tend to undercite past patents with female lead inventors, while …