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

ABSTRACT:

Background

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.

Methods

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.

Results

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 at

SUBMITTER: White EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9508661 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature