Gap between number of men and women in science globally is slowly closing

A study of the publications of almost 6 million researchers over 20 years suggests that men produce more papers than women, even after correcting for age.

The authors, who’ve published their research as an as yet unpeer-reviewed preprint, based their analysis on the Scopus database and used an algorithmic approach to determine whether authors were men or women. They considered only authors that had at least three publications, and linked authors to discipline and to countries. China and India were excluded, however, because of the large number of researchers for whom it was difficult to determine whether they were men or women.