Editorial diversity correlates with journal impact factor and author diversity in cardiothoracic surgery.

IF 2.3 3区医学 Q2 SURGERY World Journal of Surgery Pub Date : 2024-10-15 DOI:10.1002/wjs.12359

Russell Seth Martins, Zainab Umar, Muhammad Ali Amir, Zulfiqar Haider Jogezai, Warda Ahmed, Mehak Barolia, Syed Shahzad Razi, Kostantinos Poulikidis, M Jawad Latif, Linda W Martin, Daniela Molena, Faiz Y Bhora

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Introduction: While there are no widely accepted diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) metrics for journals, geographic and sex diversity across a journal's editorial board may provide a surrogate measure of its commitment to DEI. We explored the association between journal quality and DEI metrics for cardiothoracic surgery (CTS) journals and investigated whether editorial diversity correlates with diversity across published articles.

Methods: We collected the following data for 30 CTS journals: country of publication (categorized by income level), journal quality metrics (citation-based metrics, e.g., impact factor (IF) or H-index), and sex and geographic representation across editorial boards and published articles. Bivariate correlations between numeric variables were assessed using Spearman's correlation.

Results: Female representation across editorial boards was 12.1%. Most editorial board members belonged to the United States (35.2%), with only 7.4% from the lower-middle-income countries and 0% from low-income countries. IF showed a strong positive correlation with female editorial representation (r = 0.70) but an inverse correlation with low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) editorial representation (r = -0.45). Female editorial representation demonstrated a significant positive correlation with female first authorship (r = 0.45), whereas LMIC editorial representation correlated strongly with LMIC corresponding authorship (r = 0.85).

Conclusion: Women and researchers from LMICs are in the minority across editorial boards of CTS journals. However, a strong correlation between journal H-index and female editorial representation indicates that top-ranked journals are spearheading efforts to improve equitable sex-based and gender representations. Similar efforts are required to ensure more global geographic representation across editorial boards and top-ranked CTS journals are the best placed to lead by example.

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编辑多样性与心胸外科期刊影响因子和作者多样性的相关性。

导言：尽管目前还没有广为接受的期刊多样性、公平性和包容性（DEI）指标，但期刊编委会的地域和性别多样性可能是衡量期刊是否致力于DEI的替代指标。我们探讨了心胸外科（CTS）期刊的质量与DEI指标之间的关联，并研究了编辑多样性是否与已发表文章的多样性相关：我们收集了 30 种 CTS 期刊的以下数据：出版国（按收入水平分类）、期刊质量指标（基于引文的指标，如影响因子 (IF) 或 H 指数）、编委会和已发表文章的性别和地域代表性。数字变量之间的二元相关性采用斯皮尔曼相关法进行评估：结果：女性在编委会中所占比例为 12.1%。大多数编委来自美国（35.2%），只有 7.4% 来自中低收入国家，0% 来自低收入国家。IF与女性编辑代表呈强正相关（r = 0.70），但与中低收入国家（LMICs）编辑代表呈反相关（r = -0.45）。女性编辑代表与女性第一作者呈显著正相关（r = 0.45），而中低收入国家编辑代表与中低收入国家相应作者呈强烈正相关（r = 0.85）：结论：来自低收入国家的女性和研究人员在科技期刊编委会中占少数。然而，期刊 H 指数与女性编辑代表之间的强相关性表明，排名靠前的期刊正在带头努力改善基于性别和性别代表的公平性。需要做出类似努力，以确保编委会具有更多的全球地域代表性，而排名靠前的 CTS 期刊最有条件以身作则。

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World Journal of Surgery 医学-外科

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5.10

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3.80%

发文量

460

审稿时长

3 months

期刊介绍： World Journal of Surgery is the official publication of the International Society of Surgery/Societe Internationale de Chirurgie (iss-sic.com). Under the editorship of Dr. Julie Ann Sosa, World Journal of Surgery provides an in-depth, international forum for the most authoritative information on major clinical problems in the fields of clinical and experimental surgery, surgical education, and socioeconomic aspects of surgical care. Contributions are reviewed and selected by a group of distinguished surgeons from across the world who make up the Editorial Board.