Graduate Programs in Computing at the University of Brasilia: Comparison of Academic Papers and Collaborations by Gender

The computing field has a low level of gender diver-sity, being predominantly male. This diversity gap is reflected at different academic levels, ranging from undergraduate degrees to master's and doctoral qualifications. As in other parts of the world, the University of Brasilia, one of the top 10 universities in Brazil, has a low rate of women in Computing in its graduate programs. According to data from CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel in Brazil), the computing area is one of the areas of Exact Sciences with the lowest number of women proportionally in Brazil. In this context, this paper aims to present an analysis of the number of publications and scientific collaborations related to the gender of researchers in the Graduate Program in Informatics (PPG I) at the University of Brasilia. To develop this research, technologies such as scraping were used to collect data from the program's professors, articles published (only full papers in conferences and academic journals) by them and names of the people who collaborated in the preparation of the articles, a database graph-based noSQL was used to generate the relationship networks. A relationship network was created, in which it was possible to analyze the relationship level of each professor in the program. As initial results, the average number of articles published is the same by gender, we did not find significant differences in the number of publications between men and women. In the study we only counted the number of publications, we did not analyze the impact of the publications. Regarding collaborations, initial results indicate that women are more collaborative than men in the program, with a higher degree of collaboration than the average for male researchers. In general, in the partial results, collaboration networks for journals and conferences present the same result, that female researchers proportionally collaborate more than men, both internally (publications co-authored with members of the University of Brasilia) and externally (publication with co-authorship outside the University of Brasilia), in academic publications.