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. 2020 Mar 10;15(3):e0230312. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0230312

Table 3. Perpetrator demographic characteristics.

N Percentage
Gender
Male 2,114 91.79%
Female 117 5.08%
Mixed Group 43 1.87%
Other 29 1.26%
Rank/Role
Assistant Professor 107 4.7%
Associate Professor 108 4.7%
Full Professor 576 25.2%
Graduate Student 165 7.2%
Postdoc 23 1.0%
PhD Student 92 4.0%
Faculty* 874 38.3%
Other 338 14.8%
Supervisory Positions
Advisor/Mentor 209 9.2%
Chair/Department Head 209 9.2%
Dean 22 1.0%
Principal Investigator 25 1.1%
Tenured 742 32.5%
Endowed Chair/"Famous" 118 5.2%
Other supervisory role 247 10.8%
Not reported 51 2.2%

Note

* = only generic title written, further details not specified. For gender, “other” refers to responses that are unclear or not reported