20.500.12556/DKUM-97760 Gender shapes the relationship between productivity and journal prestige in science Gender disparities in academia manifest and persist in various aspects of the scientific enterprise, yet their influence on the interplay between research productivity and journal prestige remains underexplored. Here we analyze the academic trajectories of over 6000 elite Brazilian researchers by jointly tracking their annual productivity and the average prestige of the journals in which they publish. By projecting individual career years onto a standardized productivity-prestige plane and applying Bayesian hierarchical modeling, we find that male researchers are more likely to follow productivity-oriented trajectories and are markedly overrepresented in the hyperprolific region of this plane. Female peers, in contrast, more often occupy regions that prioritize journal prestige over publication quantity. Although male researchers publish more throughout their careers, their female counterparts achieve comparable or higher average journal prestige, particularly in later career stages and among outlier individuals. Male researchers also exhibit greater temporal persistence in their productivity and impact levels and are especially averse to simultaneously changing both metrics compared to their female peers. Among non-outliers, productivity and career age have a negative overall impact on the average journal prestige of researchers of both genders, with slightly stronger effects observed among female researchers; however, these patterns vary across disciplines, highlighting the complexity and heterogeneity of academic careers. gender productivity science excellence social physics spol produktivnost znanost odličnost fizika družbe true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Znanstveno delo 2026-04-10 10:03:39 2026-04-10 10:03:39 2026-04-11 03:07:34 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 14 str. št. članka 10854 Letn. 16 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 2026-03-23 2026-03-31 53:001.89:305-055 274791939 10.1038/s41598-026-45844-z 2045-2322 RAZ_Ribeiro_Vitor_H._2026.pdf RAZ_Ribeiro_Vitor_H._2026.pdf 1 4491464BD41CA9945939DE3EE99E736C 0db6831cf04584d71801b05cd1e79f510d2a052a961b9fbcbc022919134921c4 0698397a-34b4-11f1-92c6-00155d0001a1 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=205174 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-45844-z 1 b000ac5a-34b3-11f1-92c6-00155d0001a1 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=205173 Fakulteta za naravoslovje in matematiko 0 0 0