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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• White, Erin M.
• Maduka, Richard C.
• Ballouz, Dena
• Chen, Herbert
• Wexner, Steven D.
• Behrns, Kevin E.
• Lillemoe, Keith D.
• LeMaire, Scott A.
• Smink, Douglas S.
• Sandhu, Gurjit

Titel

Surgical research journals - Under review: An assessment of diversity among editorial boards and outcomes of peer review

Ist Teil von

• The American journal of surgery, 2021-12, Vol.222 (6), p.1104-1111

Ort / Verlag

United States: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The 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. A 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. 25.6% 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. Diversity 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. •Assessment of diversity among editorial boards of surgical research journals and analysis of over 41,810 manuscripts.•Respondents: 25.6% female, 2.9% Black/African American, 3.3% Hispanic/Latinx; increasing diversity in younger board members.•28% of respondents self-identified as underrepresented-in-medicine.•Acceptance rates for DEI-related manuscripts exceeded non-DEI manuscripts at all journals.•No clear association between diversity of editorial boards and acceptance rates for DEI.