Trends in country and gender representation on editorial boards in anaesthesia journals: a pooled cross-sectional analysis.

ABSTRACT: Evidence exists that women and people from low- and middle-income countries are under-represented on the editorial boards of medical journals. This may adversely influence the journal output. We conducted a pooled, cross-sectional evaluation of the editorial board membership of anaesthesia journals. We collected data on members of editorial boards from the founding year and at 5-yearly intervals until 2020. For each editor, we recorded gender, country of affiliation, World Bank income classification (1990 onwards) and editorial role (2020 only). The composite editorial board diversity score was calculated for each editorial board. We obtained complete data for the composition of editorial boards from all 30 journals for 2020, but for only 171 out of 304 editorial boards (56%) over the time

SUBMITTER: Anaesthesia Journal Editorial Board Diversity and Representation Study Group 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9545632 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature