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Compared to the general population, as well as to medical school faculty or practicing physicians, Black and Hispanic/Latinx individuals are underrepresented at top-tier scientific and medical journals, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine June 11. White individuals accounted for more than 75 percent of editors in the survey and Asian individuals for another 15 percent.
Overall, more work clearly needs to be done to establish an inclusive environment for sexual and gender minorities in medicine and science; this applies for journals as well.
The team of researchers, led by James Salazar, a clinical research fellow at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and an editorial fellow at JAMA IM, emailed a survey to 654 editors at 25 journals (17 in the US and 8 in Europe), asking them about their race and ethnic background, as well as their sexual orientation and gender ...
