Gender trends in computer science authorship

Authorship Patterns in Computer Science Research in the Philippines

We studied patterns of authorship in computer science (CS) research in the Philippines by using data mining and graph theory techniques on archives of scientific papers presented in the Philippine Computer Science Congresses from 2000 to 2010 involving 326 papers written by 605 authors. We inferred from these archives various graphs namely, a paper–author bipartite graph, a co-authorship graph,...

Gender and Computer Science Education

Future Trends in Authorship Attribution

Authorship attribution, the science of inferring characteristics of an author from the characteristics of documents written by that author, is a problem with a long history and a wide range of application. This paper surveys the history and present state of the discipline – essentially a collection of ad hoc methods with little formal data available to select among them. It also makes some pred...

Gender and race in predicting achievement in computer science

Reactive Tendencies of Bibliometric Indicators: Trends in the Alphabetization of Authorship in Economics and Information Science

The paper adds a category to the list of possible negative steering effects of bibliometric indicators with a category for changes in credit assignment. The results of a longitudinal study of credit assignment practices in the fields of economics and information science are presented. The practice of alphabetization of authorship is demonstrated to vary significantly between the two fields. A s...