TY - JOUR
T1 - Sex Distribution of Editorial Board Members Among Emergency Medicine Journals
AU - Gottlieb, Michael
AU - Krzyzaniak, Sara M.
AU - Mannix, Alexandra
AU - Parsons, Melissa
AU - Mody, Shivany
AU - Kalantari, Annahieta
AU - Ashraf, Hala
AU - Chan, Teresa M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 American College of Emergency Physicians
PY - 2021/1
Y1 - 2021/1
N2 - Study objective: Previous studies have demonstrated that a sex disparity exists in the editorial boards of select specialties. However, there are limited data with respect to emergency medicine. We seek to determine the sex distribution of editors in chief and editorial board members among emergency medicine journals. Methods: In this cross-sectional survey, we compiled a list of all emergency medicine journals, using the Scimago Journal & Country Rank on August 13, 2019. We excluded journals that were no longer published, were not emergency medicine journals, had rotating editorial boards for each issue, or had no first names listed. We obtained the sex and editorial board role by using publicly available data on the journal Web sites. We assigned sex according to knowledge of the member or his or her online faculty profile and used the Genderize program (Genderize.io, Roskilde, Denmark) when sex could not be determined with the above-mentioned approach. We report descriptive statistics for the categoric data, stratified by position (editor in chief, editorial board member, social media editor, resident/fellow member) and country. Results: We identified 73 journals in Scimago; 37 met inclusion criteria, with data available to determine the sex in 99.5% of cases. There were 46 total editors in chief, with only 4 (8.7%) being women. Of 1,477 total editorial board members, only 241 were women (16.3%), with a range of 0% to 33.3% per journal. We found that 28.6% of social media editors (2/7) at 4 journals and 70% of resident or fellow editors (7/10) at 5 journals were women. Conclusion: There is a notable sex disparity among emergency medicine journals’ editors in chief and editorial board members. Efforts should be made to improve sex distribution among editorial boards.
AB - Study objective: Previous studies have demonstrated that a sex disparity exists in the editorial boards of select specialties. However, there are limited data with respect to emergency medicine. We seek to determine the sex distribution of editors in chief and editorial board members among emergency medicine journals. Methods: In this cross-sectional survey, we compiled a list of all emergency medicine journals, using the Scimago Journal & Country Rank on August 13, 2019. We excluded journals that were no longer published, were not emergency medicine journals, had rotating editorial boards for each issue, or had no first names listed. We obtained the sex and editorial board role by using publicly available data on the journal Web sites. We assigned sex according to knowledge of the member or his or her online faculty profile and used the Genderize program (Genderize.io, Roskilde, Denmark) when sex could not be determined with the above-mentioned approach. We report descriptive statistics for the categoric data, stratified by position (editor in chief, editorial board member, social media editor, resident/fellow member) and country. Results: We identified 73 journals in Scimago; 37 met inclusion criteria, with data available to determine the sex in 99.5% of cases. There were 46 total editors in chief, with only 4 (8.7%) being women. Of 1,477 total editorial board members, only 241 were women (16.3%), with a range of 0% to 33.3% per journal. We found that 28.6% of social media editors (2/7) at 4 journals and 70% of resident or fellow editors (7/10) at 5 journals were women. Conclusion: There is a notable sex disparity among emergency medicine journals’ editors in chief and editorial board members. Efforts should be made to improve sex distribution among editorial boards.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2020.03.027
DO - 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2020.03.027
M3 - Article
C2 - 32376090
AN - SCOPUS:85084200062
SN - 0196-0644
VL - 77
SP - 117
EP - 123
JO - Annals of Emergency Medicine
JF - Annals of Emergency Medicine
IS - 1
ER -