Methods:
See our January 2018 Journal Watch post for details on methods.
Base rates:
First authors are more likely to be graduate students or postdoctoral fellows. Using our calculations based on registration for the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, 50% of graduate students and postdocs in neuroscience are women.
For last or sole authors we take the base rate to be 31%, the percentage of women faculty at the same meeting. We take the base rate for all authors to be the overall percentage of 43%.
Plots:
Data:
Journal of Neuroscience
Volume 39, Issues 10:13
Excluding: This Week in The Journal, Editorial, Correction
First author gender ratio: 24 women : 35 men (41%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 22 women : 38 men (37%)
Middle author gender ratio: 136 women : 175 men (44%)
All author gender ratio: 182 women : 248 men (48%)
Excluded: 0 last author, 0 first author, and 9 middle authors. 9 in total.
Neuron
Volume 101, Issue 5 and Issue 6
Excluding: Corrections
First author gender ratio: 17 women : 22 men (44%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 8 women : 34 men (19%)
Middle author gender ratio: 51 women : 92 men (36%)
All author gender ratio: 76 women : 148 men (34%)
Excluded: 0 last authors, 0 first author, and 7 middle author. 7 in total.
Nature Neuroscience
Volume 22, Issue 3
Excluding: Amendments and Corrections, Author/Publisher correction
First author gender ratio: 4 women : 13 men (24%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 7 women : 13 men (35%)
Middle author gender ratio: 67 women : 131 men (34%)
All author gender ratio: 78 women : 157 men (33%)
Excluded: 0 last authors, 0 first authors, 1 middle authors. 1 in total.
eNeuro
Excluding: Editorial
First author gender ratio: 13 women : 8 men (62%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 7 women : 16 men (33%)
Middle author gender ratio: 21 women : 31 men (40%)
All author gender ratio: 41 women : 55 men (43%)
Excluded: 0 last authors, 0 first authors, 2 middle author. 2 in total
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