Gender imbalances among top-cited scientists across scientific disciplines over time through the analysis of nearly 5.8 million authors

• John P. A. Ioannidis ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jioannid@stanford.edu

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3118-6859

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• Kevin W. Boyack,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation SciTech Strategies, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Thomas A. Collins,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Elsevier, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Jeroen Baas

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Intelligence, Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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