Team growth and women leadership

This chart explores the relationship between team size growth and the presence of women in leadership roles across research fields (2015–2024).

A publication is counted as woman-led if a woman is either the first or last author, acknowledging that different disciplines attribute leadership to different positions.

* X-axis: change in average team size
* Y-axis: percentage-point change in woman-led publications
* Bubble size: total publication volume

Fields are color-coded by their broader discipline:
● Humanities and Creative Arts
● Biological Sciences and Biotechnology
● Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences
● Engineering, Information and Computing Sciences
● Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences