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I'd like to ask a couple questions for me to form my own conclusions:

1. What's the gender ratio of scientists with h-index >100? >50? >10?

2. What's the ratio of scientists with missing wikipedia pages breakdown by gender, with h-index>100? >50? >10?

3. What's the gender ratio of scientists of first/second/third authors, on papers with citation >500, >200, >100.



What conclusions would it offer? Among the top 100 chess players I think there are three women. Most people seem to think it's due to some cultural factors or gender discrimination. This could be applied to any asymmetries you might find.


I can ask follow up questions if the answer is known.

But mainly, I want to know if the ratios from my questions don't match the gender ratio in the general population, at which point does the ratio start to diverge?

Was it when a student needs to choose a major? Or when a professor interviews a PhD candidate? Or when assigning tasks and someone getting a less impactful part? Or when deciding the ordering of the authors based on (very subjectively) the contribution?


Right now it’s zero women. Hou Yifan just dropped out of the top 100.


I suspect you will need to do the research to answer these questions yourself. Sadly you can't even just run a name join because humans don't have primary key uniqueness.




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