Gender composition by academic field

Gender estimates are merged from gender-api.com using both name and country, and fallback to name only when needed. For researchers from East Slavic countries (rus, blr, ukr, kaz, tkm, uzb, kgz, geo), we infer gender from the surname: -aja and -va indicate female; -v indicates male. A substantial number of researchers lack gender estimates, typically because no full first name was available.

Fields are defined at the ASJC-2 level and inferred from the source (journal or conference proceeding) in which the scientist publishes. If a source is assigned to multiple fields—as is often the case—the scientist is considered active in each of them. Variables year: Year of the publication field: ASJC-2 field female: Number of authors publishing in that year and that field estimated to be female male: Number of authors publishing in that year and that field estimated to be male unknown: Number of authors publishing in that year and that field without gender estimate