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The giant plan to track diversity in research journals
by prckov 14/3/2022, 14:45
The giant plan to track diversity in research journals (nature.com)
Efforts to chart and reduce bias in scholarly publishing will ask authors, reviewers and editors to disclose their race or ethnicity
In the next year, researchers should expect to face a sensitive set of questions whenever they send their papers to journals, and when they review or edit manuscripts. More than 50 publishers representing over 15,000 journals globally are preparing to ask scientists about their race or ethnicity — as well as their gender — in an initiative that’s part of a growing effort to analyse researcher diversity around the world.
The effort comes amid a push for a wider acknowledgement of racism and structural racism in science and publishing — and the need to gather more information about it. In any one country, such as the United States, ample data show that minority groups are under-represented in science, particularly at senior levels
It is never too late for progress
Efforts to chart and reduce bias in scholarly publishing will ask authors, reviewers and editors to disclose their race or ethnicity
In the next year, researchers should expect to face a sensitive set of questions whenever they send their papers to journals, and when they review or edit manuscripts. More than 50 publishers representing over 15,000 journals globally are preparing to ask scientists about their race or ethnicity — as well as their gender — in an initiative that’s part of a growing effort to analyse researcher diversity around the world.
The effort comes amid a push for a wider acknowledgement of racism and structural racism in science and publishing — and the need to gather more information about it. In any one country, such as the United States, ample data show that minority groups are under-represented in science, particularly at senior levels
It is never too late for progress
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Re: The giant plan to track diversity in research journals
by prckov 14/3/2022, 14:47
“Now we want to see these efforts being implemented, normalized and generalized throughout the publishing system. Without this information, it is impossible to evaluate the state of the current system in terms of equity and diversity,” the group’s founders said in a statement
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Re: The giant plan to track diversity in research journals
by prckov 14/3/2022, 14:59
The joint commitment group decided that it would ask scientists about their gender and race or ethnicity when they authored, reviewed or edited manuscripts.
The historical associations of asking people to disclose these personal descriptors pose another set of problems, and could, if not sensitively handled, intensify concerns about how these data will be used. In countries such as the United States, people might be accustomed to sharing the information with their employers; some companies are required to report this to the federal government by law. But in others, such as Germany, authorities do not collect race or ethnicity data. Here, there is extreme sensitivity around racial classification — rooted in revulsion at the way such information was used in the 1930s and 1940s to organize the Holocaust. Race and ethnicity data must also be carefully processed during collection and storage under Europe’s data-protection laws.
The historical associations of asking people to disclose these personal descriptors pose another set of problems, and could, if not sensitively handled, intensify concerns about how these data will be used. In countries such as the United States, people might be accustomed to sharing the information with their employers; some companies are required to report this to the federal government by law. But in others, such as Germany, authorities do not collect race or ethnicity data. Here, there is extreme sensitivity around racial classification — rooted in revulsion at the way such information was used in the 1930s and 1940s to organize the Holocaust. Race and ethnicity data must also be carefully processed during collection and storage under Europe’s data-protection laws.
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It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigotet adherents of the party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unortodoxy.
Orwell 1984
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Re: The giant plan to track diversity in research journals
by prckov 14/3/2022, 15:04
In January, a team used8 US Census Bureau data to assign US names a probability distribution of being associated with any of four categories: Asian, Black, Latinx or White. The researchers then studied papers by 1.6 million US-based authors, and found that work from what they describe as minoritized groups is over-represented in topics that tend to receive fewer citations, and that their research is less cited within topic
progres
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It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigotet adherents of the party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unortodoxy.
Orwell 1984
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Re: The giant plan to track diversity in research journals
by T. 14/3/2022, 15:07
Pa normalno...
Nije u redu da su 'people of color' zastupljeni u znanstvenim publikacijama manje nego bijeli...
Treba to filtrirat i ujednačit...
Nije u redu da su 'people of color' zastupljeni u znanstvenim publikacijama manje nego bijeli...
Treba to filtrirat i ujednačit...
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Re: The giant plan to track diversity in research journals
by prckov 14/3/2022, 15:09
Given those complex dimensions, the best option for collecting data is simply to invite scientists to self-identify, says Jory Lerback, a geochemist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who worked with the AGU on its studies of academic diversity.
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It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigotet adherents of the party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unortodoxy.
Orwell 1984
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Re: The giant plan to track diversity in research journals
by prckov 14/3/2022, 15:11
pa da, treba uvest equity, to je sad u diru na zapaduT. wrote:Pa normalno...
Nije u redu da su 'people of color' zastupljeni u znanstvenim publikacijama manje nego bijeli...
Treba to filtrirat i ujednačit...
a equity je u biti komunizam, izjednacavanje nejednakosti medu ljudima vjestackim putem
rasni i gender marksizam
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