Jina Lee is a sociologist whose research examines how gender shapes the evaluation and recognition of scientific knowledge. Using computational text analysis, bibliometric analysis, and survey experiments, she investigates how evaluation practices with seemingly neutral criteria often end up reproducing inequality in academia. Her ongoing work examines how gender influences which ideas are recognized as novel and whose contributions are deemed more credible under crisis. While her primary focus is on gender biases in scientific evaluation, she has extended her research to cultural and entrepreneurial domains, demonstrating the pervasive influence of status-based biases across multiple contexts. Her research has been published in the American Sociological Review, Poetics, Socius, and the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship.

Lee, Jina. (2025). Gendered Pathways to Perpetual Fame: The Selection of Elite Novelists into the Korean Literary Canon. Poetics, 112.

Leahey, Erin, Jina Lee, Russell. J. Funk. (2023). What Types of Novelty Are Most Disruptive? American Sociological Review, 88(3): 562-597. 

Lee, Jina, Minjae Seo, Erin Leahey. (2022). Who Deserves Protection? How Naming Potential Beneficiaries Influences COVID-19 Vaccine Intentions. Socius, 8.

Zhao, Yi, Jina Lee, Cheryl Ellenwood. (2021). The Persistent Influence of Gender Stereotypes in Social Entrepreneurial Financing. Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 15(3): 811-832.