EEG: Analytical Approaches and Applications
Speaker gender ratio: 3 women : 17 men (15%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 30%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword EEG OR Electroencephalography and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 32 pages using our python script. Search originally performed in February 2017.
IBRO-SIMONS Computational Neuroscience Imbizo 2020 (ISi-CNI)
Organizers: Christopher Currin and Emma Vaughan
Sponsors: the International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO) and the Simons Foundation
Speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 12 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
ESI Systems Neuroscience Conference 2019
Organizers: Wolf Singer, Pascal Fries, Renata Vajda, William Barnes, Christini Katsanevaki, Katharine Shapcott, Cem Uran, Yiling Yang
Speaker gender ratio: 5 women : 6 men (45%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 42%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword systems AND neuroscience and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 16 pages using our python script. Search originally performed in April 2019.
Barcelona Summer School for Advanced Modeling of Behavior
Organizers: Alex Hyafil, Christopher Summerfield, Klaus Wimmer
Sponsors: Psychonomic Society, William K. and Katherine W. Estes Fund, Sociedad Española de Neurociencia, Centre de Recerca Matemática.
Speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 6 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 29%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords modeling AND computational AND neuroscience AND behavior and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 8 pages of results using our python script.
Advanced Course 2019: Learning and Memory
Organizers: Susumu Tonegawa and Sheena Josselyn
Faculty gender ratio: 2 Women : 5 Men (29%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 38%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (learning OR memory) AND neuro and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 75 pages of results found using our python script. Search originally performed in December 2017.
Organizers: Albrecht Haase, Jorge Jovicich, Ludovico Minati, Lorenzo Pavesi
Sponsors: Brandy Brain Network Dynamics, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, BackUp neuromorphic photonics and the brain, European Research Council
Speaker gender ratio: 3 women : 14 men (21%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 45%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyphrase (“network dynamics”) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 5 pages of results using our python script.
Organizers: Yoshihiro Yoshihara and Hitoshi Hashimoto
Sponsors: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 8 Women : 21 Men (28%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 31%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women faculty in neuroscience.
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 14:17
Excluding: This Week in The Journal, Editorial, Correction
First author gender ratio: 29 women : 30 men (49%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 20 women : 40 men (33%)
Middle author gender ratio: 95 women : 176 men (35%)
All author gender ratio: 144 women : 246 men (37%)
Excluded: 0 last author, 1 first author, and 5 middle authors. 6 in total.
Neuron
Volume 102, Issue 1 and Issue 2
Excluding: Corrections
First author gender ratio: 19 women : 22 men (46%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 18 women : 27 men (40%)
Middle author gender ratio: 80 women : 114 men (41%)
All author gender ratio: 117 women : 163 men (42%)
Excluded: 0 last authors, 2 first author, and 9 middle author. 11 in total.
Nature Neuroscience
Volume 22, Issue 4
Excluding: Amendments and Corrections, Author/Publisher correction
First author gender ratio: 7 women : 12 men (37%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 7 women : 14 men (33%)
Middle author gender ratio: 45 women : 76 men (34%)
All author gender ratio: 59 women : 102 men (37%)
Excluded: 0 last authors, 0 first authors, 3 middle authors. 3 in total.
CNS2019 Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience
Organizer: Lubomir Kostal
Sponsor: Entropy
Speaker gender ratio: 1 woman : 8 men (11%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Brainy Days in Jerusalem 3: An Interdisciplinary Celebration
Organizers: Merav Ahissar, Inbal Goshen, Yonatan Loewenstein and Israel Nelken
Invited speaker gender ratio: 8 Women : 12 Men (40%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 31%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women faculty in neuroscience.
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