Who Are the Gatekeepers? An Examination of Diversity in INFORMS Journal Editorial Boards

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laker J. Newhouse ◽  
Margaret L. Brandeau
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Underrepresented Minorities ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Underrepresented Minority ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Editorial Boards ◽  
Journal Editorial ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
High Level

Publishing in respected scholarly journals is critical to academic success. However, if journal editorial boards fail to reflect the diversity of thought in a field, worthy work may be overlooked. This study assesses the level of diversity in the editorial boards of the 16 INFORMS journals. We examine gender, whether an individual is an underrepresented minority, and institutional affiliation, and perform a network analysis to identify coauthor relationships between editorial board members. We find that the editorial boards have low levels of diversity: women comprise just under 20% of the editorial board members; fewer than 1% of editorial board members are underrepresented minorities; and 10 institutions (less than 5% of the total) account for more than 25% of the editors. We find a high level of connectivity between editorial board members (as measured by coauthor relationship) for some of the INFORMS journals, suggesting the influence of an “in crowd” of like-minded individuals. INFORMS can and should work to end this state of affairs: we provide a set of actionable recommendations for broadening diversity and reducing connectivity on the INFORMS journal editorial boards. In this way, INFORMS journals can support a diversity of backgrounds and views, enabling the publication of a broader range of ideas and invigorating academic discourse in our profession.

Editorial boards of 45 journals devoted to school and educational psychology: International characteristics and publication patterns

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-136
Author(s):  
Jiayi Wang ◽  
John C. Begeny ◽  
Rahma M. Hida ◽  
Helen O. Oluokun
Keyword(s):  
Educational Psychology ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Editorial Boards ◽  
Publication Patterns ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Future Research Directions

To assess and promote internationally representative scholarship, several past studies have examined the geographic affiliation of journals’ editorial board members and authors. The present study is the first known to examine this with journals devoted to school and educational psychology. After systematically identifying all peer-reviewed scholarly journals around the globe that are specifically devoted to school or educational psychology ( N = 45), the goals of this study were to (a) report key characteristics about each journal’s editorial board, and (b) examine the extent to which geographic affiliation (country where one is employed) is consistent among a journal’s editorial board members and recent authors. One key finding revealed that editorial boards of the discipline’s journals represent individuals from all global regions, but many global regions (e.g. Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America) are underrepresented. Another finding showed that the vast majority of journals evidence strong similarities in geographic affiliation between editorial board members and authors. Findings, implications, limitations, and future research directions are discussed in the context of internationalization.

Representation of Women on Plastic Surgery Journal Editorial Boards in the United States

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lacey R Pflibsen ◽  
Brittany M Foley ◽  
Robert W Bernard ◽  
Gordon K Lee ◽  
Matthew R Neville ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Surgery ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Board Members ◽  
High Impact Journal ◽  
Editorial Boards ◽  
Journal Editorial ◽  
Underrepresentation Of Women ◽  
Surgery Journals

Abstract Background During the past decade, a growing number of women have pursued medical careers, including in plastic surgery. However, woman physicians have tended to be underrepresented in a variety of leadership roles in their respective specialties. Objective We sought to evaluate the representation of female plastic surgeons on the editorial boards of high impact plastic surgery journals. Methods The gender of editorial board members on three high impact plastic surgery journals was evaluated from 2009 and 2018. The number of women on each editorial board was than compared to the number of board certified female plastic surgeons (BCFPS) and board certified female academic plastic surgeons (BCFAPS), a subgroup of BCFPS. Results There were 555 unique editorial board members from Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery (PRS), Aesthetic Surgery Journal (ASJ), and Annals of Plastic Surgery (APS) from 2009 to 2018. During that period, 72 editors (13.0%) were women. At the beginning of the study, there were significantly fewer female editors than expected based on proportionate representation of BCFPS and BCFAPS to all board certified Plastic Surgeons (ABCPS) (p=0.007, 0.007 respectively). Over the course of the study there has been a 177% increase in women holding editorial board positions. At the end of the study period, women were adequately represented on all three editorial boards compared to their population data (BCFPS and BCFAPS). Conclusions Over the ten year period of this study (2009-2018), editorial boards have overcome the underrepresentation of women on their editorial boards and female plastic surgeons are currently adequately represented on the top three high impact journal editorial boards.

scholarly journals Policy on Conflict of Interest

2008 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
_ _
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Editorial Boards ◽  
Open Disclosure ◽  
Interest Policy ◽  
Publishing Group ◽  
Considerable Discussion

Relationships between industry and neurosurgeons engaged in both clinical practice and research have become increasingly complicated due to increased utilization of expensive devices in day-to-day neurosurgical practice. The Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG) has always had a policy of demanding open disclosure of any real, potential, or even perceived conflict of interest by authors submitting scientific manuscripts. Recently, the editor-in-chief and members of the editorial boards, after much discussion of this issue, decided that this policy of open disclosure should be enhanced and more specifically defined. In addition, we felt that such a policy should be extended to all reviewers of articles submitted for publication to JNSPG journals—both members of the editorial boards and ad hoc reviewers. To clarify, extend, and specify the JNSPG's policy in this respect, the editor and editorial boards developed a task force on “Conflict of Interest.” The task force, after considerable discussion with the full editorial boards, developed the following Conflict of Interest policy as well as the forms that submitting authors, editorial board members, and other reviewers are now required to complete.

scholarly journals Openness and Diversity in Journal Editorial Boards

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Micah Altman ◽  
Philip N. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Board Structure ◽  
Entity Extraction ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Editorial Boards ◽  
International Diversity ◽  
Journal Editorial

This study aims to measure diversity in scholarly journals’ editorial board structure and characterize patterns of editorial diversity across types of journals. To accomplish these aims, we integrate multiple sources of data at the journal and editor level to assemble a novel database describing the composition of editors and editorial boards for more than six thousand journals internationally, characterized by discipline, commercial publishing model, and research transparency. We then apply name-based gender imputation, geo-entity extraction analysis, and standardized dispersion measures to evaluate each group’s diversity. This analysis reveals that editorial leadership is more homogenous than editorial boards, and that diversity across both boards and leadership varies substantially (and robustly) across disciplines. Open-access journal’s boards exhibit less gender diversity and more international diversity than their closed-access counterparts. These results also suggest that open access, open science, and diversity, and equity, and inclusion are not strongly correlated and thus require separate measurements.

scholarly journals The Journal “Russian Annals” (Paris; Shanghai, 1937–1939): Table of Contents

Literary Fact ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 352-392
Author(s):  
Manfred Schruba
Keyword(s):  
General Characteristic ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Editorial Boards ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Bibliographical Description

The paper gives a bibliographical description of a full set of the first wave emigré journal “Russian Annals” contents. The introduction provides a general characteristic of the periodical and briefly presents the journal’s editor M.N. Pavlovskii. It draws a sketch of the journal’s history main landmarks, which can be neatly divided in two divergent periods with different editorial boards. The foreword describes also the particularities of the everyday editorial business under the circumstances of the publisher’s residence in Shanghai and the editorial board members’ habitation in Paris. Finally, the table of contents’ structure features are displayed.

scholarly journals Policy on Conflict of Interest

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. E13 ◽  
Author(s):  
_ _
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Editorial Boards ◽  
Open Disclosure ◽  
Interest Policy ◽  
Publishing Group ◽  
Considerable Discussion

Relationships between industry and neurosurgeons engaged in both clinical practice and research have become increasingly complicated due to increased utilization of expensive devices in day-to-day neurosurgical practice. The Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG) has always had a policy of demanding open disclosure of any real, potential, or even perceived conflict of interest by authors submitting scientific manuscripts. Recently, the editor-in-chief and members of the editorial boards, after much discussion of this issue, decided that this policy of open disclosure should be enhanced and more specifically defined. In addition, we felt that such a policy should be extended to all reviewers of articles submitted for publication to JNSPG journals—both members of the editorial boards and ad hoc reviewers. To clarify, extend, and specify the JNSPG's policy in this respect, the editor and editorial boards developed a task force on “Conflict of Interest.” The task force, after considerable discussion with the full editorial boards, developed the following Conflict of Interest policy as well as the forms that submitting authors, editorial board members, and other reviewers are now required to complete.

scholarly journals Quality of Scholarly Journals and Major Selection Criteria for Coverage by the Web of Science

Acta Naturae ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-13
Author(s):  
V. A. Markusova
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Citation Score ◽  
International Diversity ◽  
Journal Impact ◽  
The Web

The major criteria for scholarly journals selection to be covered by the Web of Science are discussed. These criteria include the compliance of a journal with world standards, the international diversity, citation score of authors and editorial board members, the journal impact factor and journals self-citation. The demand for the unified transliteration of the authors name and the use of the unified English-language name and address of a research organization, as well as for including the information on funding organization (grant number and agency name) is emphasized.

scholarly journals The state of russian library and information sciences from the perspective of academic journals

Bibliosphere ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 56-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. A. Mazov ◽  
V. N. Gureyev
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Geographic Distribution ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Editorial Boards ◽  
Scholarly Output ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Information Sciences

Scientific challenge: A study of the current state of library and information sciences via bibliometric analysis of scientific journals and their editorial board members, i. e. geographic distribution and bibliometric analysis of their scholarly output resulting in additional approaches to evaluate serials and scientific area.Purpose: Bibliometric analyses of journals and scholarly output and geographic distribution of their editorial board members being the most authoritative experts over the last 5 years; detection of large scientific centers of library and information science; detection of a core of academic journals.Originality: For the first time in Russian literature results of the analysis of editorial boards are described for additional evaluation of library and information science journals and relevant scientific areas in general. Due to a limited number of papers on analysis of editorial boards this paper can be used as methodological one as well.Findings: Analysis of geographic distribution enabled us to detect a share of foreign members of almost 25 percent. The largest groups of Russian experts are located in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg, but also in two regional centers of the European part of Russia – Voronezh and Samara, while only Novosibirsk is the center of the Siberian expert group in library and information science. Experts mainly work at universities, followed by research organizations of The Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Wide range of bibliometric indices of editorial board members correlates with that of relevant journals. Some approaches of editors to enhance journal indices are detected including publication of their own high-level papers in journals which they are working for since these papers are attracting a larger amount of citations as compared with papers of other authors. Another strategy assumes that editorial board members cite their own journal in other serials. Co-citation data of analyzed journals predominantly demonstrate the absence of strong connections between journals.Conclusions: Editorial boards play a significant role in enhancing bibliometric indices of journals, and stronger integration of Russian library and information science society is necessary which may result in increasing currently low ranks of the studied journals among international serials.

scholarly journals Quality of Scholarly Journals and Major Selection Criteria for Coverage by the Web of Science

Acta Naturae ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. A. Markusova
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Citation Score ◽  
International Diversity ◽  
Journal Impact ◽  
The Web

The major criteria for scholarly journals selection to be covered by the Web of Science are discussed. These criteria include the compliance of a journal with world standards, the international diversity, citation score of authors and editorial board members, the journal impact factor and journals self-citation. The demand for the unified transliteration of the authors name and the use of the unified English-language name and address of a research organization, as well as for including the information on funding organization (grant number and agency name) is emphasized.

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