Twenty years of infectious disease dynamics research: gender and race imbalances in publication and citation practices

This repository provides the source code for the following study: Juliana C Taube*, Alexes Merritt*, Shweta Bansal. Twenty years of infectious disease dynamics research: gender and race imbalances in publication and citation practices. Proc. R. Soc. B 292:20250960. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.0960

Anonymized data to reproduce the figures in the text are provided in compliance with our data-sharing agreement with Clarivate.

The recommended citation for this repository is: Juliana C Taube*, Alexes Merritt*, Shweta Bansal. Github. 2025. Twenty years of infectious disease dynamics research: gender and race imbalances in publication and citation practices. Available from: https://github.com/bansallab/IDD_imbalance

Data (coreidd/)

This folder contains the anonymized data for our analyses. Data dictionaries for the columns for each file are provided in the folder. The different input_jif files correspond to different sensitivity analyses of the main text impact factor analysis.

cited-reference-loop and citing-articles-loop folders contain code used to extract data from the Web of Science Core Collection API. They are housed in this folder as running the files would deposit the data into these respective folders.

Code (pull_data/, process_data/, and make_figures/)

Scripts explaining how data were pulled from Web of Science, processed, and used to make figures. Some of the code is in the coreidd/cited-reference-loop and coreidd/citing-articles-loop folders. Files were run in numerical order and are named descriptively.

Some files are pulled directly from Dworkin et al. including HelperFunctions.R, nickname.gends.csv, and nicknames.csv.