Elena Chechik

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Kontakt

E-Mail
elena.chechik-TextEinschliesslichBindestricheBitteEntfernen-@uni-flensburg.de
Gebäude
Gebäude Riga 6
Raum
RIG 606
Straße
Mitscherlich-Nielsen-Straße 2f
PLZ / Stadt
24943 Flensburg

Institutionen

Name
Seminar für Sozialstrukturanalyse, empirische Methoden und Statistik
Funktion
Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in

Academic and Research Positions

Research Associate, ACCESS Project Sep. 2023 – present

Supervisor: Prof. Florian Hertel. Europa-Universit¨at Flensburg Flensburg, Germany

Researcher, Center for Institutional Analysis of Science & Education Jan. 2020 – Sep. 2023

European University at St.Petersburg St.Petersburg, Russia

External Researcher, Gender Wage Gap Decomposition Project Jan. 2020 – Nov. 2021

Center for Advanced Governance Moscow, Russia

Assistant Lecturer / Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics Oct. 2014 – Dec. 2019

Samara State Technical University Samara, Russia

• Courses: Economics, Econometrics.

Research Projects

Grant policy analysis

A study of the two largest Russian grant foundations

• Database development: web scraping, data preprocessing (cleaning, detecting publications from peer-reviewed

journals, enriching data by Scopus, identifying publications from potentially predatory journals).

• Exploratory data analysis, statistical analysis for:

– K. Guba, A. Zheleznov, E. Chechik, "Bibliometric accountability in Russian science policy: the use of

publication metrics for research funding decisions." Journal of Data and Information Science [Link:

manu47.magtech.com.cn/Jwk3_jdis/EN/Y2023/V/I/10]

• STI 2023. "Uncovering Barriers for Women in Russian Grant Funding: Rejected and Supported Grant

Applications." E. Chechik [Link: github.com/hellche/grant_applications]

Analysis of gender gaps in academic disciplines

Based on PhD and DS dissertations data

• Data preprocessing (data cleaning, imputing missing data, gender assignment), exploratory data analysis, statistical

analysis, topic modeling, visualizations and text for:

– ISSI 2023."Gender Disparities in Academic Disciplines: An Attempt to Fill in the Blind Spots of Bibliometrics."

E. Chechik. [Link: github.com/hellche/issi2023]

Exploring the Russian academic community

Survey of about 15,000 academic staff from five fields: sociology, economics, political science, history, law (in 2021-2022)

• Development of design of experiments on social preferences (public goods game).

• Database development (formation of a representative sample, enrichment by the national citation base), data

preprocessing for:

– Sokolov M., Chechik E. (2022) "Academic reputations of Russian economists and their scientometric

assessments." Voprosy ekonomiki. 11 (In Russ.) [DOI: doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2022-11-117-135]

English-language publications about Russia over the past 30 years

Scientific knowledge about Russia in the fields of Social Sciences and Humanities (WoS, 1990–2020)

• Data preprocessing (data cleaning, imputing missing data), exploratory data analysis to identify patterns [Link:

github.com/hellche/russian_studies/]

Parenthood in academia

A Study of parenthood for female and male academic economists (survey, 2021-2022)

• Chechik E. Parenthood and Gender in Russian Academia [in Russ.] Voprosy obrazovaniya, (In Press).

• STI 2023. "Gender, Parenthood, and Academic Performance: Work-life and Work-work Balance in Russian

Academia" E. Chechik. Online supplementary materials [Link: hellche.github.io/parenthood_HEI/]

Gender wage gap estimation

Analysis of the gender wage gap in 2010-2020 in Russia on two datasets

• Estimation of adjusted and unadjusted gender wage gap on the data of the Russian statistical agency and Russia

Longitudinal Monitoring Survey

• Gap decomposition on an explained and unexplained (Oaxaca-Blinder method)

Education

Higher School of Economics Jul. 2017 – Aug. 2018

Applied Econometrics Certificate Moscow, Russia

• Microeconometrics, Macroeconometrics, Spatial Econometrics

Samara State Technical University Sep. 2006 – Jul. 2011

Specialist Degree in Economics (diploma with distinction) Samara, Russia

• Business Economics, Macroeconomics, Forecasting, Banking, Stock Market

Scholarships & Summer Schools

RESPECT Doctoral Fellowship Sep. 2023 – present

Georgia Tech, US

• Part of Cassidy R. Sugimoto & Thema Monroe-White NSF-funded grant on intersectional inequalities in science.

Science of Science Summer School (S4) Aug. 2022

SOS+CD Lab and School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, US virtual event

• Team project: Network analysis on academic mentoring data and developed a recommendation system.

Experimental Economics Summer School Aug. 2019

Laboratory of Experimental and Behavioural Economics, Higher School of Economics St. Petersburg, Russia

• Team project: The Effect of Priming on Cheating in the Long-Run.

Fulbright Scholarship FFDP 2018-19 Aug. 2018 – Jan. 2019

University of Massachusetts, Department of Economics Boston, US

• The internship in feminist economics with Prof. Julie Nelson.

Conferences

International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI 2023). Sept. 26-29 Leiden,

Netherlands [Conference paper; poster session]

International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference (ISSI 2023). July 2-5, Bloomington

(IN), US [Poster session]

International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI 2023). June 26-29, Evanston (IL),

US [Poster session]

International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI 2022). Sept. 7-9 Granada,

Spain: "Dissertation Authors and Their Mentors. Can Gender Diversity in Russian STEM be Achieved?", E. Chechik

[Conference proceedings: zenodo.org/record/6956906; Github: github.com/hellche/stem_sti/]

Bridges between Disciplines: Gender in STEM and Social Sciences (BRIGES 2022). Sept. 12-16, Gandia,

Spain: "STEM in Russia: Is Moving Toward Gender Diversity Postponed?", E. Chechik

International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference (ISSI 2021). Jul. 12-15, Leuven,

Belgium (virtual event): "Use of Scientometrics in Evaluation of Grant Proposals", K. Guba, A. Zheleznov, E. Chechik,

A. Tsivinskaya [Conference proceedings:

issi-society.org/publications/issi-conference-proceedings/proceedings-of-issi-2021]

Skills

Tools: R, Python, Stata, LATEX, GitHub

Languages: English (advanced), German (beginner), Russian (native)