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  • Item type:Publication,
    Gender Differences in Collaboration Patterns in Computer Science Open PDF 
    (2022)
    Yamamoto, J.
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    Frachtenberg, E.
    The research discipline of computer science (CS) has a well-publicized gender disparity. Multiple studies estimate the ratio of women among publishing researchers to be around 15–30%. Many explanatory factors have been studied in association with this gender gap, including differences in collaboration patterns. Here, we extend this body of knowledge by looking at differences in collaboration patterns specific to various fields and subfields of CS. We curated a dataset of nearly 20,000 unique authors of some 7000 top conference papers from a single year. We manually assigned a field and subfield to each conference and a gender to most researchers. We then measured the gender gap in each subfield as well as five other collaboration metrics, which we compared to the gender gap. Our main findings are that the gender gap varies greatly by field, ranging from 6% female authors in theoretical CS to 42% in CS education; subfields with a higher gender gap also tend to exhibit lower female productivity, larger coauthor groups, and higher gender homophily. Although women published fewer single-author papers, we did not find an association between single-author papers and the ratio of female researchers in a subfield. © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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    The evolution of female authorship in computing research Open PDF 
    (2015)
    Cavero, J.M.
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    Vela, B.
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    Cáceres, P.
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    Cuesta, C.
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    Sierra-Alonso, A.
    In this paper we have conducted a study that covers computer science publications from 1936 to 2010 in order to analyze the evolution of women in computing research. We have considered the computing conferences and journals that are available in the digital bibliography and library project database, which contains more than 1.5 million papers and more than 4 million authorships, corresponding to about 4,000 journals, conferences and workshops. We analyze the participation of women as the authors of publications, productivity and its relationship with the average research life of women in comparison to that of men, the gender distribution of conference and journal authorships depending on different computer science topics, and authors’ behavior as regards collaborating with one gender and/or the other. We also detail the method used to obtain and validate the data. The results of our study have led us to some interesting conclusions concerning various aspects of the evolution of female authorship in computing research. © 2014, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary.