Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Schizophr Res. 2023 Mar;253:75-78. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2022.08.021. Epub 2022 Oct 8.
We evaluate how often scholars of color publish papers on schizophrenia in high-impact psychiatric journals, and whether they are more likely than white authors to prioritize race/ethnicity as a primary variable of interest in analyses.
Prior work categorized the types of ethnoracial analyses reported in 474 papers about schizophrenia published in high-impact psychiatric journals between 2014 and 2016. In this study, the photographs of the first and last author for each paper were coded as "person of color" (POC) or "white". Additionally, each author was asked to self-report their race and ethnicity. The percentage of papers published by white versus POC authors was calculated. Chi-square analyses tested the hypotheses that (a) white scholars are more likely than POC scholars to conduct any sort of racial analysis; (b) POC scholars are more likely to conduct primary analyses by race/ethnicity; and (c) white scholars are more likely to analyze race/ethnicity as extraneous variables.
Eighteen percent of papers were published by POC first authors, and 17% were published by POC last authors. There were minimal differences in the types of analyses conducted by POC and white authors. Self-reported race/ethnicity showed that Asian scholars were the most highly represented within POC authors (9% of respondents), but only 3% of authors identified as Hispanic/Latinx and none identified as Black or Indigenous American.
People of color are underrepresented as authors in US-based schizophrenia research published in high-impact journals. Culturally-informed mentorship as well as prioritization of race/ethnicity in funding structures are important to increase representation of POC authors.
我们评估有色人种学者在高影响力精神病学期刊上发表精神分裂症论文的频率，以及他们在分析中是否更倾向于将种族/民族作为主要关注变量。
先前的工作对发表在 2014 年至 2016 年期间高影响力精神病学期刊上的 474 篇关于精神分裂症的论文中报告的种族分析类型进行了分类。在这项研究中，每篇论文的第一作者和最后作者的照片被编码为“有色人种”（POC）或“白人”。此外，要求每位作者报告自己的种族和民族。计算了由白人作者和 POC 作者发表的论文百分比。卡方检验检验了以下假设：（a）白人学者比 POC 学者更有可能进行任何形式的种族分析；（b）POC 学者更有可能按种族/民族进行主要分析；（c）白人学者更有可能将种族/民族作为额外变量进行分析。
18%的论文由 POC 第一作者发表，17%的论文由 POC 最后作者发表。POC 作者和白人作者进行的分析类型差异极小。自我报告的种族/民族表明，亚洲学者在 POC 作者中占比最高（9%的受访者），但只有 3%的作者认为自己是西班牙裔/拉丁裔，没有作者认为自己是黑人或印第安人。
在美国，在高影响力期刊上发表的精神分裂症研究中，少数民族作者的代表性不足。文化知情的指导以及在资助结构中优先考虑种族/民族对于增加 POC 作者的代表性非常重要。
