Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion on Editorial Boards of Global Health Journals.

ABSTRACT: Journals have been described as "duty bearers" of upholding fundamental ethical principles that are essential for maintaining the ethical integrity of newly generated and disseminated knowledge. To play our part, we evaluated diversity and inclusion in the leadership and management of global and international health journals. We developed Journal Diversity Index (JDI) to measure three parameters of diversity and representation (gender, geographic, socioeconomic status). Relevant information regarding editorial board members of systematically screened journals was sequentially extracted and job titles were categorized into five editorial roles. Chi-squared test was utilized to study associations between gender and geographic distribution of editors along with the Medline indexing of the jou

SUBMITTER: Manan MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10018626 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature