02031nas a2200265   4500000000100000008004100001260001500042653003200057653002800089653003700117653002300154653001900177653001600196653002400212653002500236653001900261100002200280700002300302245008500325856007200410300001100482490000700493520125100500022001401751       2021                            d  c2021-08-0110aAcademic values and beliefs10aBibliometric assessment10aBibliometric evaluation criteria10aGender disparities10aMerit criteria10aPreferences10aResearch evaluation10aTenure and promotion10aValue Judgment1 aLaura Cruz-Castro1 aLuis Sanz-Menendez00aWhat should be rewarded? Gender and evaluation criteria for tenure and promotion  uhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157721000675  a1011960 v153 aCriteria for assessing candidates are essential elements for the functioning of evaluation practices in academia. This article addresses a relevant issue of academia: the preference for evaluation criteria for tenure and promotion, as reported by female and male academics employed at Spanish universities. We use survey data from 4,460 faculty members, testing whether there are differences in the evaluation criteria that women and men prefer and exploring the factors that account for such preferences. Our focus is on bibliometric evaluation criteria. We propose an analytical model that considers the influence of career and quality factors, values about universalism and the mission of universities, and beliefs about meritocracy in the context of the academic evaluation system. We use a binary logistic model to explain the preference for bibliometric criteria and develop the comparisons by gender using predicted probabilities and marginal effects for estimating the difference. We find that female academics do not have the same preferences as men and report lower preferences for bibliometrics. However, women at the highest research quality levels have similar probabilities than males to prefer bibliometric criteria for evaluation.  a1751-1577