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Background: Despite its impact on innovation, gender diversity remains far from fully being achieved in open-source projects. Aims: We examine gender diversity in Hugging Face (HF) organizations, investigating its impact on innovation and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Maria Tubella Salinas , Alexandra González , Silverio Martínez-Fernández

In recent years, concerns have increased over the lack of contributor diversity in open source software (OSS), despite its status as a paragon of open collaboration. OSS is an important form of digital infrastructure and part of a career…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Hana Frluckaj , James Howison , Laura Dabbish , Nikki Stevens

The field of software engineering is embedded in both engineering and computer science, and may embody gender biases endemic to both. This paper surveys software engineering's origins and its long-running attention to engineering…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Thomas J. Misa

Categorization via gender is omnipresent throughout society, and thus also computing; gender identity is often requested of users before they use software or web services. Despite this fact, no research has explored how software developers…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Elijah Bouma-Sims , Yasemin Acar

The gender gap in computer science (CS) research is a well-studied problem, with an estimated ratio of 15%--30% women researchers. However, far less is known about gender representation in specific fields within CS. Here, we investigate the…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Eitan Frachtenberg , Rhody D. Kaner

There is extensive, yet fragmented, evidence of gender differences in academia suggesting that women are under-represented in most scientific disciplines, publish fewer articles throughout a career, and their work acquires fewer citations.…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Junming Huang , Alexander J. Gates , Roberta Sinatra , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Numerous studies in the literature highlight that women are underrepresented in the scientific domain which further leads to the underrepresentation of women in prestigious publications, authorship positions, and collaboration. However, the…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Kiran Sharma , Harsha V. Garine , Satyam Mukherjee

Developing software with the source code open to the public is prevalent; however, similar to its closed counter part, open-source has quality problems, which cause functional failures, such as program breakdowns, and non-functional, such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Jincheng He , Zhongheng He

Open source software projects usually acknowledge contributions with text files, websites, and other idiosyncratic methods. These data sources are hard to mine, which is why contributorship is most frequently measured through changes to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Jean-Gabriel Young , Amanda Casari , Katie McLaughlin , Milo Z. Trujillo , Laurent Hébert-Dufresne , James P. Bagrow

Context: Diversity can impact team communication, productivity, cohesiveness, and creativity. Analyzing the existing knowledge about diversity in open source software (OSS) projects can provide directions for future research and raise…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Reydne Santos , Rafa Prado , Ana Paula de Holanda Silva , Kiev Gama , Fernando Castor , Ronnie de Souza Santos

Diversity and inclusion in open source software (OSS) is a multifaceted concept that arises from differences in contributors' gender, seniority, language, region, and other characteristics. D&I has received growing attention in OSS…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Zixuan Feng , Mariam Guizani , Marco A. Gerosa , Anita Sarma

While several previous studies have analyzed gender bias in research, we are still missing a comprehensive analysis of gender differences in the AI community, covering diverse topics and different development trends. Using the AI Scholar…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Yiwen Ding , Jiarui Liu , Zhiheng Lyu , Kun Zhang , Bernhard Schoelkopf , Zhijing Jin , Rada Mihalcea

Software development has become essential to scientific research, but its relationship to traditional metrics of scholarly credit remains poorly understood. We develop a dataset of approximately 140,000 paired research articles and code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Eva Maxfield Brown , Isaac Slaughter , Nicholas Weber

A fundamental unit of work in programming is the code contribution ("commit") that a developer makes to the code base of the project in work. An author's commit frequency describes how often that author commits. Knowing the distribution of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-08-22 Carsten Kolassa , Dirk Riehle , Michel A. Salim

One can point to a variety of historical milestones for gender equality in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), however, practical effects are incremental and ongoing. It is important to quantify gender differences in…

Despite the increasing number of women graduating in mathematics, a systemic gender imbalance persists and is signified by a pronounced gender gap in the distribution of active researchers and professors. Especially at the level of…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2016-12-06 Helena Mihaljević-Brandt , Lucía Santamaría , Marco Tullney

Gender imbalance persists across science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, including computer science, where it appears in researcher demographics, productivity, recognition, hiring, and career progression. Given…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Kazuki Nakajima , Yuya Sasaki , Sohei Tokuno , George Fletcher

This study presents an automated bibliometric analysis of 6569 research papers published in thirteen Brazilian Computer Science Society (SBC) conferences from 1999 to 2021. Our primary goal was to gather data to understand the gender…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Natália Dal Pizzol , Eduardo Dos Santos Barbosa , Soraia Raupp Musse

Diversity with respect to ethnicity and gender has been studied in open-source and industrial settings for software development. Publication avenues such as academic conferences and journals contribute to the growing technology industry.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Aditya Shankar Narayanan , Dheeraj Vagavolu , Nancy A Day , Meiyappan Nagappan

The issue of gender bias in scientific publications has been a topic of ongoing debate. One aspect of this debate concerns whether women receive equal credit for their contributions compared to men. Conventional wisdom suggests that women…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Keigo Kusumegi , Daniel E. Acuña , Yukie Sano