August 2018 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 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, 49% of graduate students and postdocs in neuroscience are women.

For last or sole authors we take the base rate to be 32%,  the percentage of women faculty at the same meeting. We take the base rate for all authors to be the overall percentage of 43%.

Data:

Journal of Neuroscience
Volume 38, 31 through 35
Excluding: This Week in The Journal, Corrections
First author gender ratio: 21 women : 51 men (29%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 21 women : 54 men (28%)
Middle author gender ratio: 98 women : 153 men (39%)
All author gender ratio: 140 women : 258 men (35%)

Excluded: 1 first author, 0 last authors, and 9 middle authors. 10 in total.

Neuron
Volume 99, Issue 3 and Issue 4
Excluding: Erratum
First author gender ratio: 6 women : 29 men (17%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 9 women : 30 men (23%)
Middle author gender ratio: 53 women : 102 men (28%)
All author gender ratio: 68 women : 161 men (30%)

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

Nature Neuroscience
Volume 21, Issue 6
Excluding: Corrections
First author gender ratio: 6 women : 7 men (46%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 4 women : 12 men (25%)
Middle author gender ratio: 39 women : 64 men (38%)
All author gender ratio: 49 women : 83 men (37%)

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

Nature Neuroscience
Volume 21, Issue 8
Excluding: Amendments & Corrections
First author gender ratio: 4 women : 7 men (35%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 7 women : 7 men (50%)
Middle author gender ratio: 41 women : 47 men (47%)
All author gender ratio: 52 women : 61 men (46%)

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

Bernstein 2018 Workshop: “Deciphering neural circuits for innate behaviors: experimental and theoretical approaches in model organisms”

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Bernstein 2018 Workshop: “Deciphering neural circuits for innate behaviors: experimental and theoretical approaches in model organisms”

Organizer: Marina Wosniack
Speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 2 Men (67%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.

Bernstein 2018 Workshop: “Neural computation of behaviorally relevant stimuli”

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Bernstein 2018 Workshop: “Neural computation of behaviorally relevant stimuli”

Organizers: Jan Benda, Rüdiger Krahe
Sponsors: Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), Tübingen, Germany
Speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 4 Men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.

July 2018 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 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, 49% of graduate students and postdocs in neuroscience are women.

For last or sole authors we take the base rate to be 32%,  the percentage of women faculty at the same meeting. We take the base rate for all authors to be the overall percentage of 43%.

Data:

Journal of Neuroscience
Volume 38, 27 through 30
Excluding: This Week in The Journal, Editorial, Correction
First author gender ratio: 30 women : 28 men (52%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 15 women : 45 men (25%)
Middle author gender ratio: 113 women : 120 men (48%)
All author gender ratio: 158 women : 193 men (45%)

Excluded: 1 first author, 0 last authors, and 9 middle authors. 10 in total.

Neuron
Volume 99, Issue 1 and Issue 2
Excluding: Corrections
First author gender ratio: 16 women : 18 men (47%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 13 women : 25 men (34%)
Middle author gender ratio: 54 women : 141 men (28%)
All author gender ratio: 83 women : 184 men (31%)

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

Nature Neuroscience
Volume 21, Issue 6
Excluding: Corrections
First author gender ratio: 6 women : 7 men (46%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 4 women : 12 men (25%)
Middle author gender ratio: 39 women : 64 men (38%)
All author gender ratio: 49 women : 83 men (37%)

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

eNeuro
May/June 2018; Volume 5, Issue 3
Excluding: Editorial
First author gender ratio: 6 women : 8 men (43%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 7 women : 9 men (44%)
Middle author gender ratio: 22 women : 29 men (43%)
All author gender ratio: 35 women : 43 men (39%)

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

Nature Neuroscience
Volume 21, Issue 7
Excluding: Amendments & Corrections
First author gender ratio: 8 women : 15 men (35%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 5 women : 19 men (21%)
Middle author gender ratio: 54 women : 118 men (31%)
All author gender ratio: 67 women : 152 men (31%)

Excluded: 0 last authors, 0 first authors and 4 middle authors. 4 in total.

2019 Society of Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting

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2019 Society of Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting

Organizer: Mary Phillips
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 6 Women : 6 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 40%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword biological AND psychiatry and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 11 pages of results using our python script. Search originally performed in May 2018.