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A persistent lack of International representation on editorial boards in environmental biology

View ORCID ProfileJohanna Espin, View ORCID ProfileSebastian Palmas-Perez, View ORCID ProfileFarah Carrasco-Rueda, View ORCID ProfileKristina Riemer, View ORCID ProfilePablo Allen, View ORCID ProfileNathan Berkebile, View ORCID ProfileKirsten Hecht, View ORCID ProfileRenita Kay Kastner-Wilcox, View ORCID ProfileMauricio Nunez-Regueiro, View ORCID ProfileCandice Prince, View ORCID ProfileMaria Constanza Rios-Marin, Erica P. Ross, Bhagatveer Sangha, View ORCID ProfileTia Tyler, View ORCID ProfileJudit Ungvari-Martin, View ORCID ProfileMariana Villegas, Tara Cataldo, View ORCID ProfileEmilio Bruna
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/131292
Johanna Espin
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Pablo Allen
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Kirsten Hecht
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Mauricio Nunez-Regueiro
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Candice Prince
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Maria Constanza Rios-Marin
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Erica P. Ross
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Bhagatveer Sangha
University of Florida
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Tia Tyler
University of Florida
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Judit Ungvari-Martin
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Mariana Villegas
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Tara Cataldo
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Emilio Bruna
University of Florida
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Abstract

The scholars comprising journal editorial boards play a critical role in defining the trajectory of knowledge in their field. Nevertheless, studies of editorial board composition remain rare, especially those focusing on journals publishing research in the increasingly globalized fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Using metrics for quantifying the diversity of ecological communities, we quantified international representation on the 1985-2014 editorial boards of twenty-four environmental biology journals. Over the course of three decades there were 3831 unique scientists based in 70 countries that served as editors. The size of the editorial community increased over time -- there were 420% more editors serving in 2014 than in 1985 -- as did the number of countries in which editors were based. Nevertheless, editors based outside the 'Global North' (the group of economically developed countries with high per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) that collectively concentrate most global wealth) were extremely rare. Furthermore, 67.06% of all editors were based in either the USA or UK. Consequently, Geographic Diversity -- already low in 1985 -- remained unchanged through 2014. We argue that this limited geographic diversity can detrimentally affect the creativity of scholarship published in journals, the progress and direction of research, the composition of the STEM workforce, and the development of science in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia (i.e., the 'Global South').

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A persistent lack of International representation on editorial boards in environmental biology
Johanna Espin, Sebastian Palmas-Perez, Farah Carrasco-Rueda, Kristina Riemer, Pablo Allen, Nathan Berkebile, Kirsten Hecht, Renita Kay Kastner-Wilcox, Mauricio Nunez-Regueiro, Candice Prince, Maria Constanza Rios-Marin, Erica P. Ross, Bhagatveer Sangha, Tia Tyler, Judit Ungvari-Martin, Mariana Villegas, Tara Cataldo, Emilio Bruna
bioRxiv 131292; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/131292
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A persistent lack of International representation on editorial boards in environmental biology
Johanna Espin, Sebastian Palmas-Perez, Farah Carrasco-Rueda, Kristina Riemer, Pablo Allen, Nathan Berkebile, Kirsten Hecht, Renita Kay Kastner-Wilcox, Mauricio Nunez-Regueiro, Candice Prince, Maria Constanza Rios-Marin, Erica P. Ross, Bhagatveer Sangha, Tia Tyler, Judit Ungvari-Martin, Mariana Villegas, Tara Cataldo, Emilio Bruna
bioRxiv 131292; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/131292

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