de Freitas João Victor Rosa, Morais Naiane Silva, Santos Jéssika Teodoro, Rocha-Silva Rízia, da Conceição Tatiana Silva, Dos Santos Rafaela Gomes, de Lima Braulio Evangelista, Vancini Rodrigo Luiz, Andrade Marilia Santos, Viana Ricardo Borges, de Lira Claudio Andre Barbosa
Faculdade de Educação Física e Dança, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil.
Centro de Ensino e Pesquisa Aplicada à Educação, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil.
Br J Sports Med. 2025 Mar 3;59(6):367-375. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2024-108497.
This study evaluated the representation of black researchers as authors of articles published in four peer-reviewed journals with the highest impact factors (IFs) in the field of sports science and sports medicine.
An analysis was conducted on articles published between 2018 and 2022 in four leading sports science journals with high IFs (2022): The British Journal of Sports Medicine, Journal of Sport and Health Science, Sports Medicine and Exercise Immunology Review. Data extraction from the articles included the researcher's names, sex/gender, total number of authors, number of black authors, their position in the author list, publication year, article title and type and digital object identifier. Sex/gender and race/skin colour were identified using publicly available photographs and methodologies aligned with previous studies and Brazilian racial heteroidentification practices.
The analysis included 1737 articles and 11 158 authors. Only 144 (1.30%) authors were identified as black, of which only 38 were women, corresponding to 0.34% and 26.4% of total authors and total black authors, respectively. When considering authorship positions, only 16 (0.92%) were the first author and 19 (1.09%) were the last (senior) author. Merely 13 (0.75%) articles had two or more black authors.
Our findings reveal a significant under-representation of black authors in sports science and sports medicine publications from high-impact journals, particularly in prominent authorship positions. Active initiatives and policies are urgently required to address and mitigate this inequity.
本研究评估了黑人研究人员在体育科学和运动医学领域影响因子最高的四种同行评审期刊上发表文章的作者占比情况。
对2018年至2022年期间在四种影响因子较高的顶级体育科学期刊（2022年）上发表的文章进行分析：《英国运动医学杂志》《运动与健康科学杂志》《运动医学与运动免疫评论》。从文章中提取的数据包括研究人员的姓名、性别、作者总数、黑人作者数量、他们在作者名单中的位置、发表年份、文章标题和类型以及数字对象标识符。性别和种族/肤色通过公开可用的照片以及与先前研究和巴西种族异识别实践一致的方法来确定。
分析包括1737篇文章和11158名作者。只有144名（1.30%）作者被确定为黑人，其中只有38名是女性，分别占作者总数和黑人作者总数的0.34%和26.4%。考虑作者排名时，只有16名（0.92%）是第一作者，19名（1.09%）是最后（资深）作者。只有13篇（0.75%）文章有两名或更多黑人作者。
我们的研究结果表明，在高影响力期刊的体育科学和运动医学出版物中，黑人作者的占比显著偏低，尤其是在重要的作者排名位置。迫切需要积极的举措和政策来解决和缓解这种不平等现象。
