Funding for this research was provided by:
University of South Australia (URIPA'2017)
Technische Universität München
Article History
Accepted: 4 June 2023
First Online: 28 June 2023
Declarations
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: The project involved secondary research involving human participants and/or animals. The project has been approved by the Committee on Human Ethics Research of the University of South Australia in 2017
: Recent work in several fields of science has identified a bias in citation practices, where papers from women and minorities are under-cited relative to the number of such papers in the field (Zurn et al., CitationRef removed). We have manually checked the first and the last author’s names and inferred gender. By this measure, our references are written by men (first author)/woman (last author) – 18.7%; by woman (first)/ man (last) – 20%; by woman (first)/woman (last) – 21.8%, (including solo woman authors) by man (first)/man (last) – 37.5% (including solo man authors). This method is not indicative of gender identity, cannot account for intersex, non-binary, or transgender people. We could not infer racial identity either for this case. We look forward to future work that could help us to better understand how to support equitable practices in science.