Using tools from data science, one can estimate the likelihood that a person with any given first name self-identifies as ‘woman’ or ‘man’. For example, a person named Jacqueline is 98% likely to self identify as ‘W’ and a person named Ileri is 67% likely to self-identify as ‘M.’ With this approach it has been estimated that authorship of papers published in broad-scope neuroscience journals is 55.3% M-first-author/M-last-author, 10.2% M/W, 26.2% W/M, and 8.3% W/W (Dworkin et al, 2020). For the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, the current break down (as of late 2021) is 40.7% M/M, 11.5% M/W, 32% W/M, and 15.9% W/W (Postle & Fulvio, 2021), which can be taken as a proxy for the gender breakdown of active research teams in our field. These latter values provide the base rate with which one can compute Gender Citation Balance Indices (GCBI) for the reference section of any paper that may be published in JoCN. The GCBI is a value that can range from -1 to >0, with values of 0 indicating that the proportion of X/X papers in one’s reference section perfectly matches the base rate of JoCN authorship (see “About this tool” section below for more information). JoCN is encouraging authors to use this “GCBI-alyzer” to calculate the GCBIs for the reference section of their manuscript, and to include this along with other metadata (e.g., acknowledgment, grant funding).
Instructions:
Please copy and paste your reference list with Crossref DOIs in the box below, and click the “Submit” button. Copying and pasting from a pdf document is not recommended, as this is known to cause problems with the text supplied to the parser that prevents some references from being categorized. Disabling AdBlock and other similar browser extensions may be necessary if you are experiencing failures, as these are known to interfere with the queries. Please note that it may take several minutes to obtain a result, especially for large reference lists. If you experience any technical difficulties, please see the “Understanding Failures” section toward the bottom of this page.
Crossref DOIs have the format: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.19.257402. If you need to acquire the Crossref DOIs for your references, please retrieve them from crossref.org here. Note that some references may not have a Crossref DOI associated with it. In such a case, that reference simply will not be categorized. You may copy and paste your manuscript’s reference list with DOIs or the crossref query output into the box below.
*We have recently made some updates and improvements to the tool. Please note that very long reference lists make take a little longer to complete than previously. If you encounter difficulty, please contact Jacqueline Fulvio at jcogneuro@gmail.com for assistance.
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