Publications

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• Kjersten Bunker Whittington, Molly King, Isabella Cingolini,. 2024. “Structure, Status and Span: Gender Differences in Co-authorship Networks across 16 Region-Subject Pairs (2009-2013)” Scientometrics Vol 129(1), pages 147-179.

• Contributing author, Elsevier Report (2022) “The researcher journey through a gender lens: An examination of research participation, career progression and perceptions across the globe”. https://gender-spear.eu/assets/content/Gender-2020-report-A4-WEB%20(1).pdf. (Chapter 4).

• Whittington, Kjersten Bunker. 2018. “A Tie is a Tie? Gender and Network Positioning in Life Science Inventor Collaboration” Research Policy. 47; pages 511-526.

• Plank-Bazinet, Jennifer L., Kjersten Bunker Whittington, Sara K.B. Cassidy, Rosemarie Filart, Terri L. Cornelison, Lisa Begg, and Janine Austin Clayton. "Programmatic Efforts at the National Institutes of Health to Promote and Support the Careers of Women in Biomedical Science" Academic Medicine. Vol. 91, No. 8 / (Forthcoming, August 2016).

• Mary Frank Fox, Kjersten Bunker Whittington, and Marcela Linkova. 2016. "Gender, (In)Equity, and the Scientific Workforce." In Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, edited by U. Felt, R. Fourche, C. Miller, and L. Smith-Doerr. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

• Tinkler, Justine E., Kjersten Bunker Whittington, Manwai C. Ku, and Andrea Davies. 2015. “Gender and venture capital decision-making: The effects of technical background and social capital on entrepreneurial evaluations” Social Science Research 51: 1-16.

• Powell, Walter W., Kelley Packalen, and Kjersten Bunker Whittington. Spring 2012. “Organizational and Institutional Genesis: The Emergence of High-Tech Clusters in the Life Sciences.” The Emergence of Organizations and Markets, edited by John Padgett and Walter W. Powell. Princeton University Press.

• Whittington, Kjersten Bunker. 2011. “Mothers of Invention?: Gender, Motherhood, and New Dimensions of Productivity in the Science Profession.” Work and Occupations. 38(3) 417-456.

• Whittington, Kjersten Bunker. 2009.“Patterns of Male and Female Dissemination in Public and Private Science”. The New Market for Scientists and Engineers: The Science and Engineering Workforce in the Era of Globalization, edited by Richard B. Freeman and Daniel F. Goroff. (University of Chicago Press.

• Whittington, Kjersten Bunker, Jason Owen-Smith, and Walter W. Powell. 2009. “Networks, Propinquity and Innovation in Technological Communities.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 54:90-122.

• Whittington, Kjersten Bunker and Laurel Smith-Doerr. 2008. “Women Inventors in Context: Disparities in Patenting across Academia and Industry”. Gender & Society 22(2):194-218

• Whittington, Kjersten Bunker and Laurel Smith-Doerr. 2005. “Women and Commercial Science: Women’s Patenting in the Life Sciences” Journal of Technology Transfer: Special Issue on Women and Science, 30(November): 355-370.

• Porter, Kelley, Kjersten Bunker Whittington, and Walter W. Powell. 2005. “The Institutional Embeddedness of High-Tech Regions: Relational Foundations of the Boston Biotechnology Community.” Clusters, Networks, and Innovation, edited by Stefano Breschi and Franco Malerba, Oxford University Press. Pages 261-296.

Papers in Progress

• Meredith Riley and Kjersten Bunker Whittington. “Racial Frameworks in the Consumption of Genetic Ancestry Technologies.” (Research in progress, drafted)

• Kjersten Bunker Whittington, Isabella Cingolini, Bamini Jayabalasingham, Molly King.  “Gender and co-authorship in global context: the network structure of men’s and women’s collaboration across disciplines and countries.” (Research and draft in progress)

• Powell, Walter W. and Kjersten Bunker Whittington. “Catalysis and Transposition: The Relational Basis of Robust Regional Economies.” (Working paper in progress)

Book Reviews

• Whittington, Kjersten Bunker. 2008. Review of Gender, Women, Gender and Technology, edited by Mary Frank Fox, Deborah Johnson and Sue Rosser (2006, University of Illinois Press), Review of Policy Research, 25(2), p189-191