Kranak Michael P, Rooker Griffin W, Carr Codey J, Bradtke Peter, Falligant John Michael, Hausman Nicole L
Oakland University.
Kennedy Krieger Institute.
J Appl Behav Anal. 2021 Jun;54(3):1175-1187. doi: 10.1002/jaba.828. Epub 2021 Mar 19.
Researchers have examined factors of authors such as sex of author, gender identity, and seniority within the field of behavior analysis to determine if any biases towards a certain group existed. Most recently, Kranak et al. (2020) found that women and new authors are well-represented in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA). However, that analysis included only published manuscripts. Thus, the degree to which these subpopulations are proportionally represented is unknown, because that analysis was unable to determine how often these subpopulations are submitting manuscripts. Therefore, the purpose of the current investigation was to extend Kranak et al. and analyze all accepted and rejected manuscripts submitted to JABA from 2015 - 2019. Results indicated that women and men had nearly identical acceptance rates during this time period, whereas veteran authors' acceptance rate was nearly 2.5 times greater than that of new authors. Implications for publishing, reviewing, and research mentorship practices are discussed.
研究人员考察了行为分析领域作者的一些因素，如作者性别、性别认同和资历，以确定是否存在对某一群体的偏见。最近，克拉纳克等人（2020年）发现，女性和新作者在《应用行为分析杂志》（JABA）中有很好的代表性。然而，该分析仅包括已发表的手稿。因此，这些亚群体的比例代表性程度尚不清楚，因为该分析无法确定这些亚群体提交手稿的频率。因此，本次调查的目的是扩展克拉纳克等人的研究，并分析2015年至2019年提交给JABA的所有接受和拒绝的手稿。结果表明，在此期间，女性和男性的接受率几乎相同，而资深作者的接受率几乎是新作者的2.5倍。文中讨论了对出版、评审和研究指导实践的影响。
