Fig. 11

Process plan to perform a scientometric analysis by Gendermetrics.NET. The process is divided into the four sections ‘Data Acquisition’, ‘Data Integration’, ‘Data Analysis’ and ‘Data Visualization & Export’. According to their degree of automation, the program steps are further classified as ‘Automatic’ (= complete algorithmic realization without direct supervision, autonomous algorithms), ‘Semiautomatic’ (= partial algorithmic realization with supervision, supervised algorithms) and ‘Manual’ (= user decisions without algorithmic support) (left column). Optional program points are marked by a checkbox (middle column). Assuming a fairly typical project size of N = 25.000 publications, an estimated processing time is specified for each program point as well as for the whole analysis (right column). Please note a rapid integration mode on the topographical level of countries instead of cities is provided, increasing the integration speed by a factor of 50