The representation of authors of color in schizophrenia research articles published in high-impact psychiatric journals

Reducing racial bias in scientific communication: Journal policies and their influence on reporting racial demographics.

“…Roberts et al (2020) also found that most of the authors of those articles were White, and that under White authors, compared to under authors of color, there were fewer participants of color (see also Graham, 1992). In short, the identity of the editor predicted the topic of the article, and the identity of the author predicted the demographics of the samples, illustrating how mainstream psychology is from the top-down a majority White enterprise (see also Buchanan et al, 2021; Dupree & Kraus, 2022; Lin & Li, 2023; Nagendra et al, 2023; Ricard et al, 2023). This racial hegemony limits psychology’s relevance to a global audience (i.e., most people on Earth are not White) and to an increasingly diverse U.S. society (e.g., by 2050, most U.S. citizens will be people of color; Pew Research Center, 2008).…”

“…Perception, retention, and recall in episodic memory"). This form of epistemological White-centrism is at the heart of the White Racial Frame (Azibo, 1988;Mills, 1997;Mudimbe, 1988).…”