Diversity-X v1.0

A gender and national diversity index tool

The tool Diversity-X measures the gender and national diversity of references for any kind of document you submit as a PDF file, for example published scientific articles, syllabi, technical reports, or your article’s draft.

Diversity-X can easily be administered. It does not take more than five minutes to upload the PDF file you would like to get checked and to understand the results.

The gender and national diversity of the cited authors is estimated by processing DOIs. Gender diversity is measured by collecting first name information from openalex.com, and then calculating the proportion of female authors in the reference list. We have compiled a database based on name-gender combinations identified in previous studies. If you are misgendered in the author list or if your gender is missing, and you want us to correct it, please contact us to let us know and we will update our database.

The national diversity of the cited authors is estimated by referring to the software https://openalex.org/. Diversity-X also measures which decade the cited articles were published by referring to the year provided in the reference list.

Gender diversity and the fair representation of women in science are widely debated and have often been criticized in academia (Braun et al., 2023; Trepte & Loths, 2020). National diversity, i.e., an author’s country of affiliation, has also been problematized: Previous research has demonstrated that only few of the many countries in which academics are affiliated are visible in scientific outlets (Scharkow & Trepte, 2023; Trepte & Loths, 2020). Building on that programmatic, we developed Diversity-X. A tool that will provide you with evidence on the diversity of bibliographies helping to rethink citation practices. Diversity-X is open software. If you use Diversity-X for your research, then we would appreciate your including the following reference in the papers or presentation for which you used our tool:

Trepte, S., Scharkow, M., Braun, M., Heintz, L. (2024). Diversity-X [web application], Retrieved from: https://diversity-x.de

We are open to feedback and are currently evaluating Diversity-X in a short survey. Please click here to get to the survey.

For direct correspondence, please contact us via email:

Prof. Dr. Sabine Trepte, University of Hohenheim, Germany. Institute of Communication, Department of Media Psychology, sabine.trepte@uni-hohenheim.de

Prof. Dr. Michael Scharkow, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany. Professor for Computational Communication Science, scharkow@uni-mainz.de

References

Braun, M., Heintz, L., Kruschinski, S., Trepte, S., & Scharkow, M. (2023). Gender diversity at academic conferences - The case of the International Communication Association (ICA). Journal of Communication, 73(6), 601–615. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqad032 Open data, code, material and fully reproducible: https://osf.io/nks6h/

Scharkow, M. & Trepte, S. (2023). National diversity at conferences of the International Communication Association. Annals of the International Communication Association, 48(1), 17–36. https://doi.org/10.1080/23808985.2023.2261018 Open data, code, material and fully reproducible: https://osf.io/3pe6y/

Trepte, S. & Loths, L. (2020). National and gender diversity in communication: A content analysis of six journals between 2006 and 2016. Annals of the International Communication Association, 44(4), 289-311. https://doi.org/10.1080/23808985.2020.1804434
Open data, code, material and fully reproducible: https://osf.io/3wzrq/

Recommended Reading

Zurn, P., Bassett, D. S., & Rust, N. C. (2020). Citation diversity statement: A practice of transparency, a way of life. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24(9), 669–672. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2020.06.009

Resnik, D. B., & Elmore, S. A. (2016). Ensuring the quality, fairness, and integrity of journal peer review: A possible role of editors. Science and Engineering Ethics, 22(1), 169–188. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-015-9625-5

Information on how to teach about citation diversity: https://libguides.rowan.edu/inclusive_citation

Imprint

Content Responsible (acc. § 55 Abs. 2 RStV):

Prof. Dr. Sabine Trepte

University of Hohenheim

Institute of Communication

Department of Media Psychology (540F)

70593 Stuttgart

Germany

+49 711 459-22654

sabine.trepte@uni-hohenheim.de

https://medienpsychologie.uni-hohenheim.de

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You can use our online service without disclosing your identity. The application does not primarily process any of your personal data. The IP address for sending data packets for the technical function of the application is based on your voluntary use of our service. Without the processing of this data, the service cannot be offered.

The data uploaded by you to create the report should not contain any personal data from you directly and/or other data subjects, except for the persons cited by you. Only in this way can the evaluation display the correct result. The data uploaded by you will be deleted after the evaluation and will not be processed any further. The data is therefore not stored permanently.

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