Table 5 Number of researchers by gender. Here, the gender of the researcher is estimated by an algorithm using their first name.

From: A dataset of mentorship in bioscience with semantic and demographic estimations

Gender

# researchers

male

374199

female

264263

unk

135732

  1. We acknowledge that there could be a great deal of noise and bias in this estimation. However, we believe it is better to open our algorithm to the community instead of analyzing proprietary software that does not publicize data used and performance metrics.
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