Women are underrepresented in computational biology: An analysis of the scholarly literature in biology, computer science and computational biology

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2017, Pages

  Bonham, Kevin S ^a   Stefan, Melanie I ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; IMPACT FACTOR; INTERDISCIPLINARY FIELDS; QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY; RESEARCH PAPERS; STEM FIELDS;

BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; AUTHOR; BIOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMALE WORKER; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MALE; PROBABILITY; PUBLICATION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SEX RATIO; SEX ROLE; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; BIOLOGY; CAREER CHOICE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; PUBLICATIONS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; WOMEN;

EID: 85031917449     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005134     Document Type: Article

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