Bioethics and Its Gatekeepers: Does Institutional Racism Exist in Leading Bioethics Journals?

Chattopadhyay, Subrata; Myser, Catherine; Vries, Raymond De

doi:10.1007/s11673-012-9424-5

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“…To evaluate possible differences in the percentage of editorial board members and authors for RQ2 and RQ3, we adhered to data analytic methods of similar studies (e.g. Chattopadhyay et al., 2013; Li et al., 2018; McGee et al., 2004; Svensson et al., 2007) by simply comparing, according to global region, the percentages of board member affiliation to percentages of author affiliation. Unlike past studies, however, we felt it would offer a clearer interpretive framework by evaluating (per journal) whether authorship affiliated with each respective global region differed by a specified criterion: more than 10% (higher or lower) than the journal’s percentage of board members affiliated with the global region.…”

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“…Regarding the relationship between editorial board members and authors of a particular journal (as a possible explanation for geographic disproportionality within a journal’s authorship), this relationship is often highlighted as an important factor to consider (e.g. Arnett, 2008; Begeny et al., 2018b; Chattopadhyay, Myser, & De Vries, 2013; Svensson, Slåtten, & Tronvoll, 2007; Uzun, 2004). Put simply, scholars have raised questions as to whether geographic affiliation of editorial board members may influence geographic affiliation of that journal’s authorship.…”

Section: Geographic Representation Of Scholarship In School and Educamentioning

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“…Based on their findings, the authors recommended that editorial board membership should include individuals from non- and under-represented geographical areas. In the field of bioethics, Chattopadhyay et al. (2013) argued that the overwhelmingly large proportion of publications from developed countries (96%) is mirrored in the editorial boards of 14 leading bioethics journals, where more than 95% of board members are affiliated with countries that have a high Human Development Index.…”

Section: Relationship Between Published Scholarship and Editorial Boamentioning

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Editorial boards of 45 journals devoted to school and educational psychology: International characteristics and publication patterns

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Hida

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School Psychology International

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To assess and promote internationally representative scholarship, several past studies have examined the geographic affiliation of journals’ editorial board members and authors. The present study is the first known to examine this with journals devoted to school and educational psychology. After systematically identifying all peer-reviewed scholarly journals around the globe that are specifically devoted to school or educational psychology ( N = 45), the goals of this study were to (a) report key characteristics about each journal’s editorial board, and (b) examine the extent to which geographic affiliation (country where one is employed) is consistent among a journal’s editorial board members and recent authors. One key finding revealed that editorial boards of the discipline’s journals represent individuals from all global regions, but many global regions (e.g. Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America) are underrepresented. Another finding showed that the vast majority of journals evidence strong similarities in geographic affiliation between editorial board members and authors. Findings, implications, limitations, and future research directions are discussed in the context of internationalization.

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Editorial boards of 45 journals devoted to school and educational psychology: International characteristics and publication patterns

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School Psychology International

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“…All of these publications appeared in 2003 . (In 2013, Myser copublished “Bioethics and Its Gatekeepers: Does Institutional Racism Exist in Leading Bioethics Journals?”) The other essay in AJOB from this period that centers on race and bioethics is “Why Bioethics Cannot Figure Out What to Do with Race” (2007), by Olivette Burton (an African American social worker with a background in medical ethics and social policy who is a former executive managing editor of AJOB ) …”

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Why Bioethics Has a Race Problem

Hoberman¹

2016

Hastings Center Report

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In the September‐October 2001 issue of the Hastings Center Report, editor Gregory Kaebnick encouraged bioethicists to turn their attention toward “easily overlooked, relatively little‐talked‐about societal topics” such as race. In 2000 the president of the American Society for Bioethics had called for a more socially conscious bioethics. Race was risky territory, Kaebnick pointed out, but this challenge did not justify avoidance. Over the next fifteen years, the response to this editor's invitation to examine the racial dimensions of medicine in the Report was limited both in quantity and in terms of the range of topics covered. All told, the bioethics community has not responded to the editor's call for bioethicists to engage with the racial dimension of medicine, and the Report has not really come through on the tacit commitment made in 2001. The lack of interest in race matters evidenced in the Report as well as the American Journal of Bioethics has also prevailed in medical humanities journals, whose few pieces on race have tended to remove race relations from our current realities in two ways: some articles locate medical racism in the American past or in colonial Africa, while others analyze the medical disorders of fictional characters. Bioethicists have not embraced the opportunity to create a sociologically and historically informed bioethics that might be applied to the lives of black Americans and their unending health crisis.

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“…In a previous publication, the same authors made the relevant distinction and placed these "high-income" countries in the same category with "very-high-income" countries such as Germany (Chattopadhyay, Myser, and De Vries 2013). It is important for researchers to be consistent in their methodology if data are to be used to support normative claims.…”

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