Ninth International Symposium on Biology of Decision Making

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Ninth International Symposium on Biology of Decision Making

Organizers: see here
Partners and funders: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 12 women : 13 men (48%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 30%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword biology AND “decision making”and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 12 pages of results using our python script. Search originally performed in March 2018.

Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Meeting 2019 (CCN 2019)

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Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Meeting 2019 (CCN 2019)

Organizers: Nikolaus Kriegeskorte (Chair), Danielle Bassett, Daphna Shohamy, Konrad Kording, Ralf Haefner
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 3 women : 4 men (43%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 30%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (cognitive OR cognition) AND (computation OR computational) AND neuro and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 9 pages of results using our python script.

 

Cajal Course: Interacting with Neural Circuits 2019

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Cajal Course: Interacting with Neural Circuits 2019

Organizers: Michael Häusser, Leopoldo Petreanu and Menno Witter
Sponsors: see here
Faculty gender ratio: 5 women : 21 men (19%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-18%

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience, specifically the numbers based on attendance at COSYNE (Computational and Systems Neuroscience) 2016.

January 2019 Journal Watch

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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 1:4
Excluding: This Week in The Journal, Editorial, Correction
First author gender ratio: 25 women : 30 men (45%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 19 women : 40 men (32%)
Middle author gender ratio: 92 women : 174 men (35%)
All author gender ratio: 136 women : 244 men (36%)

Excluded: 0 last author, 1 first author, and 7 middle authors. 8 in total.

Neuron
Volume 101, Issue 1 and Issue 2
Excluding: Corrections
First author gender ratio: 15 women : 16 men (48%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 7 women : 27 men (21%)
Middle author gender ratio: 55 women : 82 men (40%)
All author gender ratio: 77 women : 125 men (38%)

Excluded: 0 last authors, 1 first author, and 1 middle author. 2 in total.

Nature Neuroscience
Volume 22, Issue 1
Excluding: Amendments and Corrections, Author/Publisher correction
First author gender ratio: 5 women : 10 men (33%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 4 women : 11 men (27%)
Middle author gender ratio: 65 women : 69 men (49%)
All author gender ratio: 74 women : 90 men (45%)

Excluded: 0 last authors, 0 first authors, 6 middle authors. 6 in total.

eNeuro
January/February 2019; Volume 6, Issue 1
Excluding: Editorial
First author gender ratio: 4 women : 4 men (50%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 3 women : 6 men (33%)
Middle author gender ratio: 10 women : 16 men (38%)
All author gender ratio: 17 women : 26 men (40%)

Excluded: 0 last authors, 0 first authors, 0 middle author. 0 in total

Updated Neuroscience Base Rate

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For the past year, we have used aggregated demographic data based on SfN annual meeting registration to calculate a base rate for conferences falling under the general topic of “neuroscience,” and in our journal watch posts. This aggregated demographic data has been provided by the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), however all calculations and analysis are ours.

We have recently received updated and historical numbers from the Society for Neuroscience. The new base rates have been added to the neuroscience base rate page, along with a table of base rates per year.

During the calculation of the new base rates from the 2018 SfN annual meeting, we found an error in calculating the faculty base rate from the 2017 annual meeting. All affected posts have been updated. In addition, if the BWN rating (category) of a conference changed as a result of this error, a note was added. We are also making the aggregated numbers available on the neuroscience base rate page to prevent future mistakes.

Here is a look at the SfN base rates per year:

SfN Base Rates By Year (2)