User:Isabelladj/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
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Beyond Bias and Barriers

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I am studying both molecular and cellular biology and gender and women's studies so this article combines both of my academic interests. There is a major gender gap in the STEM field and we need to work towards changing that, this article summarizes a study on the gender gap and possible reasons for it. My first impression is that this is a pretty reliable source, nothing seems to standout that is off topic and there are a lot of links and references in this article.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

Lead section: The first sentence gives a brief overview of the article topics.

Content: Th content includes history, conclusions, receptions and influence, references, footnotes, further research and external links. The article itself is probably a bit outdated, (from 2006) and so are all the other references, but they are all on topic.

Tone and balance: the article has a neutral tone throughout. This article only discussed the biases stated in the original study, they do not seem biased towards one point though.

Sources & References: The sources are all old, but so was the article that this page is discussing. I think the sources are reliable but there needs to be links to more current studies on this topic.

Organization & writing Quality: This is a very straight to the point article. It starts off with topic overview sentence, history, then conclusions, and interpretations and influence of the study discussed. It ends with links to similar related articles and references. I believe the grammar is correct, there are long run on sentences, which is a style I have seem in other scholarly articles. These can be a little difficult to read if you are not familiar with research paper writing style.

Images & media: There are no images in this article.

Talk page discussion: It appears that the last updated and revised talk page was in June 2019. The talk pages includes some of the institutions that implemented changes suggested from the study. There are also links added.

Overall impressions: This is a good, simple article that summarizes a study. The study is probably outdated and so are some of the sources linked, so I would consider looking for more recent studies. But this is a clear simple overview.