Gender Imbalance in Mathematics Citations Do female mathematicians get cited less than men? Undergraduate project by Katharina Limbeck supervised by Janine Illian

Do female mathematicians get cited less than men?

The gender gap in STEM subjects has been widely studied and it is a known fact that women are under-represented in mathematics, especially in the most reputable mathematics journals. One aspect of this gender gap, which has not yet been analysed specifically for mathematics is gender imbalance in papers’ reference lists.

A portrait of FATIMATA SAWADOGO #thisnamedpersondoesnotexist #DALLE

This Fatimata SAWADOGO does not exist

We’ve used DALL-E text-to-image AI to generate portraits, based on names shared by a large number of people. This is our second blog post in our series with tag #thisnamedpersondoesnotexist, exploring how text-to-image AIs interpret personal names. We believe this project can illustrate the complexity of personal names interpretation, at the crossroads of ethnography, sociology, sociolinguistics, geography, history and, more recently machine learning.

A crowd in Burkina Faso (generated by DALL-E)

Common names in Burkina Faso, West-Africa

Burkina Faso is a multi-cultural and diverse country with a rich history. In this article, we would like to explorer how personal names can be interpreted to reflect regional, ethnic appartenance within the country. Then we would like to illustrate how the use of a personal name can affect a black-box Artificial Intelligence – such as OpenAI’s DALL-E. This is a first article in our series of blog posts with tag #thisnamedpersondoesnotexist.

bots and trolls in social media

NamSor helps debunk social media bots and trolls

DebunkEU.org analysts Aleksandra Michałowska-Kubś and Jakub Kubś conducted an analysis of social media posts related to sanctions imposed on the transit of goods to Kaliningrad. They used NamSor machine learning classification to assign a likely country of origin for the social account names (real or fake).

Illustration generated on DALL-E with caption : "A woman surgeon and a man surgeon operating together a complex surgery on a patient"

How gender diverse is Global Surgery ?

A paper just published in the British Journal of Surgery (Oxford) sourced innovative data from Dimensions AI, a large linked scientific publications dataset, and NamSor, our name gender classification tool, to explore the current state of gender diversity in global surgery – based on the top 1000 most published researchers.

Minority Businesses Matter: Europe

What’s in a name? Artificial intelligence was used to classify the personal names of entrepreneurs and beneficial owners of companies in eight European countries and derive unique insights into the Contribution and Challenges of Ethnic Minority Businesses in Europe.

Barcelona University ‘Bloc de Lletres’ celebrates International Women’s Day #genderdatarevolution

For International Women’s Day, one blog post and one large study by European Commission illustrate how NamSor can be used to produced an analysis of the gender gap in a particular field, using open databases.