编辑多样性与期刊影响因子和心胸外科手术中的作者多样性相关
Russell Seth Martins1, Zainab Umar2, Muhammad Ali Amir3
1Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, JFK University Medical Center, Hackensack Meridian Health, Edison, New Jersey, USA.
World journal of surgery
|October 16, 2024
概括
心胸外科杂志在编辑委员会中的多样性很低,来自低收入和中等收入国家的女性和研究人员代表性不足. 排名最高的期刊显示出更好的性别多样性,这表明它们可以导致改善全球代表性.
科学领域:
- 医学出版物 医学出版物
- 心胸外科手术 心胸外科手术
- 图书统计学 图书统计学
背景情况:
- 科学期刊的多样性,公平性和包容性 (DEI) 指标没有标准化.
- 编辑委员会的多样性 (地理和性别) 可以作为期刊DEI承诺的代理.
- 了解心胸外科 (CTS) 期刊中的DEI对于公平的科学话语至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 评估CTS期刊中期刊质量和DEI指标之间的关联.
- 调查编辑部多样性与发表文章的多样性之间的相关性.
- 确定在CTS出版中促进DEI的潜在领导者.
主要方法:
- 收集了30个CTS期刊的数据,包括出版的国家,期刊质量指标 (例如,影响因子,H指数),以及编辑委员会和发表文章中的性别/地理代表.
- 斯皮尔曼相关性被用来评估数值变量之间的双变量相关性.
- 分析重点关注女性和低收入和中等收入国家 (LMIC) 的代表性.
主要成果:
- 在编辑委员会中,女性占12.1%;35.2%来自美国,只有7.4%来自中低收入国家,0%来自低收入国家.
- 影响因子与女性编辑代表有很强的相关性 (r=0.70),但与LMIC代表相反 (r=-0.45).
- 女性编辑代表与女性第一作者相关 (r=0.45),LMIC编辑代表与LMIC对应作者相关 (r=0.85).
结论:
- 来自LMIC的女性和研究人员在CTS期刊编辑委员会中代表性不足.
- 更高的期刊质量 (H指数) 与更好的女性代表性相关,这表明顶级期刊在性别/性别平等方面处于领先地位.
- 需要采取协调一致的努力来增强全球地理代表性,最优秀的期刊将理想地领导这一倡议.
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