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SUBMITTER: Bonham KS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5638210 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bonham Kevin S KS Stefan Melanie I MI
PLoS computational biology 20171012 10
While women are generally underrepresented in STEM fields, there are noticeable differences between fields. For instance, the gender ratio in biology is more balanced than in computer science. We were interested in how this difference is reflected in the interdisciplinary field of computational/quantitative biology. To this end, we examined the proportion of female authors in publications from the PubMed and arXiv databases. There are fewer female authors on research papers in computational biol ...[more]