Surgical research journals - Under review: An assessment of diversity among editorial boards and outcomes of peer review - 09/12/21

Doi : 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2021.09.027

Erin M. White ^a , Richard C. Maduka ^b , Dena Ballouz ^c , Herbert Chen ^d , Steven D. Wexner ^e , Kevin E. Behrns ^f , Keith D. Lillemoe ^g , Scott A. LeMaire ^h,^i,^j , Douglas S. Smink ^k , Gurjit Sandhu ^l,^m,^⁎
^a Yale School of Medicine, Department of Surgery; 330 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT, 06519, USA
^b Yale Cancer Center, Advanced Training Program for Physician Scientist NIH T32 Fellowship, New Haven, CT, 06519, USA
^c University of Michigan W.K. Kellogg Eye Center, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
^d Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 35294, USA
^e Department of Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, 33331, USA
^f University of Florida Health Central Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
^g Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Surgery, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
^h Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
ⁱ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
^j Cardiovascular Research Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
^k Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
^l Department of Surgery, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
^m Department of Learning Health Sciences, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA

^∗Corresponding author. 1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, United States.1500 E. Medical Center DriveAnn ArborMI48109United States

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 attract, but no clear correlation between DEI acceptance rates and board diversity.

Conclusions

Diversity among board members reflects underrepresentation of minorities seen among surgeons nationally. Recruitment and retention of younger individuals, representing more diverse backgrounds, may be a strategy for change. DEI publication rates may benefit from calls for increasing DEI scholarship more so than changes to the peer review process.

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Highlights

•	Assessment of diversity among editorial boards of surgical research journals and analysis of over 41,810 manuscripts.
•	Respondents: 25.6% female, 2.9% Black/African American, 3.3% Hispanic/Latinx; increasing diversity in younger board members.
•	28% of respondents self-identified as underrepresented-in-medicine.
•	Acceptance rates for DEI-related manuscripts exceeded non-DEI manuscripts at all journals.
•	No clear association between diversity of editorial boards and acceptance rates for DEI.

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Keywords : Diversity, Gender, Race, Surgical research, Editorial boards

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