The rise of diversity terminology in biomedical research.

ABSTRACT: Recent scholarship has highlighted the rise of "diversity projects" across various educational and business contexts, but few studies have explored the meaning of diversity in biomedical research. In this paper, we employ a computationally driven matching technique to examine quantitative trends in the use of various forms of diversity and population terminology in a sample of nearly two million biomedical abstracts spanning a 30-y period. The curated dictionaries we leverage to detect these trends were formalized into open-source software that are publicly available for other researchers to use. Our analyses demonstrate marked growth in diversity, sex, gender, life course, and socioeconomic terms while terms relating to race and ethnicity largely plateaued or declined in usage, beginning

SUBMITTER: Kramer BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12403007 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature