data analysis – Gender Gap in Science

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On the trails of women among ICM speakers

17 Aug 201817 Aug 2018

The World Meeting for Women in Mathematics - (WM)², a satellite event of the ICM 2018 took place on July 31, 2018 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Its program included research…

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Telling the gender from a name

16 Jul 201814 Mar 2019

Why it is sensible to examine the reliability of gender inference methods by Helena Mihaljević and Lucía Santamaría Imagine that you want to teach a computer to figure out the…

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Mining 50 years of astronomy and astrophysics publications data

17 Mar 201816 Jul 2018

by Lucía Santamaría A goal of Task 2 of the Gender Gap project is the understanding of publication patterns in diverse research fields and across countries and regions. To realize…

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A fresh first look at the arXiv data

19 Jul 201714 Aug 2017

by Helena Mihaljević and Lucía Santamaría Peer reviewed publications are undoubtedly the primary means of communicating the results of academic research. However the inconveniences of this typically lengthy and slow…