Diversity-X: A simple tool to increase citation diversity [25.09.24]
We are excited to introduce Diversity-X, an innovative tool designed to assess and address the diversity of citations in your academic work. Diversity-X evaluates gender and national diversity in research articles, student coursework, syllabi, and more. With Diversity-X, we aim to help close existing citation gaps and ensure that all relevant literature is recognized.
Source: Derpartment of Media Psychology
Gender diversity and the fair representation of women in science are widely debated and often criticized in academia (Braun et al., 2023; Trepte & Loths, 2020). National diversity, referring to an author’s country of affiliation, has also been problematized. Previous research has demonstrated that only a few of the many countries where academics are based are visible in scientific publications (Scharkow & Trepte, 2023; Trepte & Loths, 2020). Specifically for gender diversity, research consistently finds that the issue is not resolved simply by having more women in academia; their work is not received the same way as that of their male peers. While there are currently more female than male researchers working and publishing in the social sciences, a citation gap persists. Diversity-X is easy to use. It takes no more than five minutes to upload the PDF file you want to check and to understand the results.
What does Diversity-X do?
- Check gender diversity of cited authors: Report the proportion of female authors and the gender homogeneity of cited author teams
- Check national diversity of cited authors: Report the proportion of U.S.-affiliated authors and the number of authors from the five most common countries of affiliation
- Check recency of cited literature: Report the proportion of references from the last five years and the distribution of publication dates of references across decades
To try it yourself, please visit www.diversity-x.de
