Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations.

ABSTRACT: Disparities continue to pose major challenges in various aspects of science. One such aspect is editorial board composition, which has been shown to exhibit racial and geographical disparities. However, the literature on this subject lacks longitudinal studies quantifying the degree to which the racial composition of editors reflects that of scientists. Other aspects that may exhibit racial disparities include the time spent between the submission and acceptance of a manuscript and the number of citations a paper receives relative to textually similar papers, but these have not been studied to date. To fill this gap, we compile a dataset of 1,000,000 papers published between 2001 and 2020 by six publishers, while identifying the handling editor of each paper. Using this dataset, we show th

SUBMITTER: Liu F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10068789 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature