Palser Eleanor R, Lazerwitz Maia, Fotopoulou Aikaterini
Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Life Sciences Addition, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Nat Neurosci. 2022 Mar;25(3):272-279. doi: 10.1038/s41593-022-01012-w. Epub 2022 Feb 21.
We reviewed publicly available information from the top 50 journals worldwide in psychology and neuroscience to infer the proportions of editors by gender and country of affiliation. In both fields, the proportions of male and female editors differed significantly, both across editorial roles and within various role categories. Moreover, for 76% of psychology journals and 88% of neuroscience journals more than 50% of editors were male, whereas only 20% and 10%, respectively, had a similar proportion of female editors. US-based academics outnumbered those from other countries as editors in both psychology and neuroscience beyond what would be expected from approximate rates of senior psychology and neuroscience scholars worldwide. Our findings suggest that editorial positions in academic journals-possibly one of the most powerful decision-making roles in academic psychology and neuroscience-are balanced in neither gender nor geographical representation.
我们查阅了全球心理学和神经科学领域排名前50的期刊的公开信息，以推断按性别和所属国家划分的编辑比例。在这两个领域，男性和女性编辑的比例在编辑角色之间以及各个角色类别中均存在显著差异。此外，在76%的心理学期刊和88%的神经科学期刊中，超过50%的编辑为男性，而女性编辑比例与之相似的期刊分别仅占20%和10%。在心理学和神经科学领域，担任编辑的美国学者数量超过了其他国家的学者，超出了全球高级心理学和神经科学学者大致比例所预期的数量。我们的研究结果表明，学术期刊的编辑职位——这可能是学术心理学和神经科学中最具影响力的决策角色之一——在性别和地域代表性方面都不均衡。
