ArticleAmerican journal of surgery2021
Surgical research journals - Under review: An assessment of diversity among editorial boards and outcomes of peer review.
Article in American journal of surgery, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Introducing the SURGERY Peer Review Academies.Surgery · 2023Article
- Participant perspectives on a department of surgery faculty mentoring program.American journal of surgery · 2023Article
- Creating Diversity on Surgical Editorial Boards.World journal of surgery · 2023Article
- Intersectionality and Its Impact on Microaggression in Female Physicians in Academic Medicine: A Cross-Sectional Study.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2023Article
- Historical determinants of neurosurgical inequities in Africa and the African diaspora: A review and analysis of coloniality.PLOS global public health · 2023Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic exposed racism as a public health crisis embedded in structural processes. Editors of surgical research journals pledged their commitment to improve structure and process through increasing diversity in the peer review and editorial process; however, little benchmarking data are available.
methodsA survey of editorial board members from high impact surgical research journals captured self-identified demographics. Analysis of manuscript submissions from 2016 to 2020 compared acceptance for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)-focused manuscripts to overall rates.
results25.6% of respondents were female, 2.9% Black, and 3.3% Hispanic. There was variation in the diversity among journals and in the proportion of DEI submissions they attract, but no clear correlation between DEI acceptance rates and board diversity.
conclusionsDiversity among board members reflects underrepresentation of minorities seen among surgeons nationally. Recruitment and retention of younger individuals, representing more diverse backgrounds, may be a strategy for change. DEI publication rates may benefit from calls for increasing DEI scholarship more so than changes to the peer review process.
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