Academics and companies increasingly draw on large datasets to understand the social
world, and name-based demographic ascription tools are widespread for imputing …

The field of plant science has grown dramatically in the past two decades, but global
disparities and systemic inequalities persist. Here, we analyzed~ 300,000 papers published …

Using measures of research productivity to assess academic performance puts women at a
disadvantage because gender roles and unconscious biases, operating both at home and in …

The 100th anniversary of Social Forces provides a rich opportunity to reflect on the history of
the journal and changes to sociology as a whole. Using a series of formal text-analytic …

Personal names simultaneously differentiate individuals and categorize them in ways that
are important in a given society. While the natural language processing community has thus …

The primary means of social and intellectual reproduction in the professoriate is through
mentoring doctoral students who become faculty mentors and publish research. However …

Disparities in authorship and citations across gender can have substantial adverse
consequences not just on the disadvantaged genders, but also on the field of study as a …

Meta-researchers commonly leverage tools that infer gender from first names, especially
when studying gender disparities. However, tools vary in their accuracy, ease of use, and …

Author Name Disambiguation (AND) is the task of resolving which author mentions in a
bibliographic database refer to the same real-world person, and is a critical ingredient of …

Recent gender policies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have improved
legal equality for women with noticeable effects in some countries. The implications of these …