cleanBibImpact: Evaluating the impact of citation diversity statements

Project info

Title: cleanBibImpact: Evaluating the impact of citation diversity statements

Project leads:

Kendra Oudyk (GitHub: koudyk | Mattermost: kendra.oudyk)
Isil Bilgin (GitHub: complexbrains | Mattermost: isil)

Timezone: We'll be working primarily in the 2PM-7PM UTC timeslot (Atlantis).

Project leads' time zones:

Kendra: Montreal UTC-4
Isil: London UTC+1

Description: Gender imbalance is a big problem in academic research, and it is even reflected in our citation behavior. Our goal is to assess the 'impact' of the cleanBib tool, which was created to make researchers more aware of this problem. This tool can be used to assess the gender balance of authors in a reference list. Specifically, we want to find papers that cite the cleanBib code/paper/preprint, and see whether those citing papers have better gender balance in their reference lists than papers that do not.

In previous hackathons, we created this figure by manually collecting citation diversity data from papers with citation diversity statements. It shows the relative gender proportions in reference lists of papers with diversity statements (relative to the expected gender proportions).

Link to project: GitHub repo Running agenda

Mattermost handle: kendra.oudyk isil

Goals for the OHBM Brainhack

Good first issues:

Update manually-collected citation diversity data from citing papers for 2020 (part of Goal 1)
Manually collect citation diversity data from citing papers for 2021 (part of Goal 1)
Review our language around gender (Goal 3)

Skills: If you're new to hackathons/coding (welcome!!), see if Project 1 or 3 would suit you 😊	Goal	Skills needed
1. Manual inspection of citing papers' diversity statement	- Google Scholar, - spreadsheets (pasting data; no calculations), - beginner Python (optional - opportunity to learn if you want to), - Git 0-1 (optional - opportunity to learn if you want to)
2. Assess whether citing papers have more diverse reference lists	- Confirmed-expert Python, - working with APIs, - Git 2
3. Review language around gender	- Familiarity with gender theory, - Git 0-1 (optional - opportunity to learn if you want to)

Chat channel: hbm-cleanBibImpact

Video channel: Jitsi video meeting room

Number of participants This depends on participants' skill levels and interests, but we're aiming for no more than 8 so that we'll have time to make it a good experience for everyone.

Onboarding documents

Image for the OHBM brainhack website https://raw.githubusercontent.com/koudyk/cleanBibImpact/master/reports/figures/relative_diversity__with_swarm__with_title.png

Twitter-size summary of your project pitch

Do papers with citation diversity statements have more gender-diverse citations?

Help us find the answer this week at the #ohbm2021 @brainhackorg hackathon in the cleanBibImpact project.

We have issues that beginners and pros can work on - all are welcome.

Project snippet for the OHBM Brainhack website

title: "cleanBibImpact: Evaluating the impact of citation diversity statements"
image: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/koudyk/cleanBibImpact/master/reports/figures/relative_diversity__with_swarm__with_title.png
details: "Gender imbalance is a big problem in academic research, and it is even reflected in our citation behavior. Our goal is to assess the 'impact' of the [cleanBib](https://github.com/dalejn/cleanBib) tool, which was created to make researchers more aware of this problem. This tool can be used to assess the gender balance of authors in a reference list. Specifically, we want to find papers that cite the cleanBib [code](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3672109)/[paper](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-020-0658-y)/[preprint](https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.03.894378), and see whether those citing papers have better gender balance in their reference lists than papers that do not. 
<br>More information <a href=https://github.com/ohbm/hackathon2021/issues/26>in this github issue</a>"

Project submission

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