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Confronting Racism in Chemistry Journals.
Accounts of Chemical Research ( IF 18.3 ) Pub Date : 2020-06-19 , DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.0c00383
Cynthia J. Burrows , Jiaxing Huang , Shu Wang , Hyun Jae Kim , Gerald J. Meyer , Kirk Schanze , T. Randall Lee , Jodie L. Lutkenhaus , David Kaplan , Christopher Jones , Carolyn Bertozzi , Laura Kiessling , Mary Beth Mulcahy , Craig W. Lindsley , M. G. Finn , Joel D. Blum , Prashant Kamat , Wonyong Choi , Shane Snyder , Courtney C. Aldrich , Stuart Rowan , Bin Liu , Dennis Liotta , Paul S. Weiss , Deqing Zhang , Krishna N. Ganesh , Harry A. Atwater , J. Justin Gooding , David T. Allen , Christopher A. Voigt , Jonathan Sweedler , Alanna Schepartz , Vincent Rotello , Sébastien Lecommandoux , Shana J. Sturla , Sharon Hammes-Schiffer , Jillian Buriak , Jonathan W. Steed , Hongwei Wu , Julie Zimmerman , Bryan Brooks , Phillip Savage , William Tolman , Thomas F. Hofmann , Joan F. Brennecke , Thomas A. Holme , Kenneth M. Merz , Gustavo Scuseria , William Jorgensen , Gunda I. Georg , Shaomeng Wang , Philip Proteau , John R. Yates , Peter Stang , Gilbert C. Walker , Marc Hillmyer , Lynne S. Taylor , Teri W. Odom , Erick Carreira , Kai Rossen , Paul Chirik , Scott J. Miller , Joan-Emma Shea , Anne McCoy , Martin Zanni , Gregory Hartland , Gregory Scholes , Joseph A. Loo , James Milne , Sarah B. Tegen , Daniel T. Kulp , Julia Laskin

The following joint Editorial was originally published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c10979). We confront the terrible reality that systemic racism and discrimination impacts the daily personal and professional lives of many members of the scientific community and broader society. In the U.S., the brutal killing of George Floyd while in police custody is one of the most recent examples of the centuries of systemic violence suffered by Black Americans. This moment and its aftermath lay bare the legacies of racism and its exclusionary practices. Let us be clear: we, the Editors, Staff, and Governance Members of ACS Publications condemn the tragic deaths of Black people and stand in solidarity with Black members of the science and engineering community. Moreover, ACS condemns racism, discrimination, and harassment in all forms. We will not tolerate practices and viewpoints that exclude or demean any member of our community. Despite these good intentions, we recognize that our community has not done enough to provide an environment for Black chemists to thrive. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, Chairwoman of the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology said, “So far, we have gotten by with a STEM workforce that does not come close to representing the diversity of our nation. However, if we continue to leave behind so much of our nation’s brainpower, we cannot succeed.”(1) Indeed, the U.S. National Science Foundation notes that Blacks and other under-represented minority groups continue to be under-represented in science and engineering education and employment.(2) What is abundantly clear in this moment is that this lack of representation is a symptom of systemic racism across all levels of education and professional life. We know that supportive words are not enough. We must develop and implement a concrete plan for changing our trajectory. Publications and citations are academic currency, and while we like to think publishing a manuscript is “just about the science”, we know that is not true for everyone. We have seen the biases (largely through the lens of gender and in Western countries because of the limitations in bibliometric analyses) and applaud our colleagues at the RSC for their massive study that explored these gender barriers in the publishing pipeline(3) and their recent Inclusion and Diversity Framework.(4) At the present time, unfortunately, less is known about the effects of race and ethnicity on publishing success. A study published in PeerJ, however, found that unprofessional reviewer comments had a disproportionate effect on authors from under-represented groups.(5) As the world’s leading society publisher, we have a responsibility to aggressively combat bias in all aspects of the publishing process, including systemic under-representation of Blacks in this endeavor (no ACS journal is currently led by a Black Editor-in-Chief). Within ACS Publications, we actively track gender and geographic diversity of editors, advisors, authors, and reviewers, and we anecdotally report on race of editors. Diversity encompasses many more dimensions than these, and we acknowledge that we can do much more than we have. We affirm that diversity and inclusion strengthen the research community and its impact, and we are committed to developing, implementing, tracking, and reporting on our progress to ensure that our editors, advisors, reviewers, and authors are more diverse and that all authors receive the same fair treatment and opportunity to publish in our journals. We acknowledge that we do not have all the answers now, but we seek to hear from and listen to our community on how we can improve our journals to be more diverse and inclusive. As first steps, we commit to the taking the following actions:
  • Gathering and making public our baseline statistics on diversity within our journals, encompassing our editors, advisors, reviewers, and authors; annually reporting on progress
  • Training new and existing editors to recognize and interrupt bias in peer review
  • Including diversity of journal contributors as an explicit measurement of Editor-in-Chief performance
  • Appointing an ombudsperson to serve as a liaison between Editors and our Community
  • Developing an actionable diversity plan for each ACS journal
Gathering and making public our baseline statistics on diversity within our journals, encompassing our editors, advisors, reviewers, and authors; annually reporting on progress Training new and existing editors to recognize and interrupt bias in peer review Including diversity of journal contributors as an explicit measurement of Editor-in-Chief performance Appointing an ombudsperson to serve as a liaison between Editors and our Community Developing an actionable diversity plan for each ACS journal These are only initial plans and the start of a conversation: other ideas are beginning to germinate, and we commit to sharing them with you regularly. We invite you contribute your ideas on how we can do better via our Axial website. We are listening carefully. We encourage you to take immediate action in your own circles. In a recent editorial, JACS Associate Editor Melanie Sanford(6) offered practical steps to take now. Take a moment to find out more about these actions and how to bring them into your work and your life. We all have a responsibility to eradicate racism and discrimination in the science and engineering community; indeed, to make a real difference, we need to be antiracist. The tragic events we have seen in the Black community provide great urgency to this goal. The work will be difficult and will force us to confront hard realities about our beliefs and actions. We fully expect that you, and everyone in the community, will hold us accountable. This article references 6 other publications. This article has not yet been cited by other publications. This article references 6 other publications.


中文翻译:

在化学期刊中面对种族主义。

以下联合社论最初发表于ACS Applied Materials&Interfaces(DOI:10.1021 / acsami.0c10979)。我们面临着可怕的现实,即系统种族主义和歧视影响着科学界和整个社会的许多人的日常个人和职业生活。在美国,被警察拘留期间对乔治·弗洛伊德(George Floyd)的残酷杀害是美国黑人数百年来遭受系统性暴力的最新例证之一。这一刻及其后果暴露了种族主义和排他性习俗的遗留物。让我们清楚一点:我们,ACS出版物的编辑,职员和治理成员谴责黑人的悲惨死亡,并声援科学和工程界的黑人成员。此外,ACS谴责一切形式的种族主义,歧视和骚扰。我们不会容忍排斥或贬低的做法和观点任何我们社区的成员。尽管有这些良好的意愿,我们认识到我们的社区做得还不够,无法为黑人化学家提供繁荣的环境。美国众议院科学,太空与技术委员会主席众议员爱迪·伯尼斯·约翰逊(Eddie Bernice Johnson)说:“到目前为止,我们所拥有的STEM员工队伍并不能代表我们国家的多样性。但是,如果我们继续落后于我们国家的这么大脑力,我们就不会成功。”(1)实际上,美国国家科学基金会指出,黑人和其他代表性不足的少数群体在科学和工程领域的代表性仍然不足(2)目前非常清楚的是,这种缺乏代表性的现象是系统性种族主义在所有教育和职业生活水平上的症状。我们知道,仅仅支持性的词汇是不够的。我们必须制定和执行改变轨迹的具体计划。出版物和引文是学术用语,尽管我们希望认为出版手稿是“关于科学的”,但我们知道并非所有人都如此。我们已经看到了这种偏见(由于文献计量学分析的局限性,主要是通过性别的视角和西方国家的偏见),并对我们在RSC的同事进行的大规模研究表示赞赏,他们探索了出版渠道中的这些性别障碍(3)以及他们最近的研究。包容性和多样性框架。(4)不幸的是,目前,关于种族和民族对出版成功的影响知之甚少。一项研究发表于 出版物和引文是学术用语,尽管我们希望认为出版手稿是“关于科学的”,但我们知道并非所有人都如此。我们已经看到了这种偏见(由于文献计量学分析的局限性,主要是通过性别的视角和西方国家的偏见),并对我们在RSC的同事进行的大规模研究表示赞赏,他们探索了出版渠道中的这些性别障碍(3)以及他们最近的研究。包容性和多样性框架。(4)不幸的是,目前,关于种族和民族对出版成功的影响知之甚少。一项研究发表于 出版物和引文是学术用语,尽管我们希望认为出版手稿是“关于科学的”,但我们知道并非所有人都如此。我们已经看到了这种偏见(由于文献计量学分析的局限性,主要是通过性别的视角和西方国家的偏见),并对我们在RSC的同事进行的大规模研究表示赞赏,他们探索了出版渠道中的这些性别障碍(3)以及他们最近的研究。包容性和多样性框架。(4)不幸的是,目前,关于种族和民族对出版成功的影响知之甚少。一项研究发表于 我们已经看到了这种偏见(由于文献计量学分析的局限性,主要是通过性别的视角和西方国家的偏见),并对我们在RSC的同事进行的大规模研究表示赞赏,他们探索了出版渠道中的这些性别障碍(3)以及他们最近的研究。包容性和多样性框架。(4)不幸的是,目前,关于种族和民族对出版成功的影响知之甚少。一项研究发表于 我们已经看到了这种偏见(由于文献计量学分析的局限性,主要是通过性别的视角和西方国家的偏见),并对我们在RSC的同事进行的大规模研究表示赞赏,他们探索了出版渠道中的这些性别障碍(3)以及他们最近的研究。包容性和多样性框架。(4)不幸的是,目前,关于种族和民族对出版成功的影响知之甚少。一项研究发表于同行但是,发现专业评论者的评论对代表性不足的人群的作者造成了不成比例的影响。(5)作为全球领先的社会出版商,我们有责任积极应对出版过程中各个方面的偏见,包括系统性的黑人在这项工作中的代表性(黑人杂志总编目前未出版ACS期刊)。在ACS出版物中,我们积极跟踪编辑,顾问,作者和审稿人的性别和地域多样性,并轶闻地报道编辑的种族。多样性所涉及的方面比这些要多得多,我们承认,我们可以做的比我们拥有的要多得多。我们申明多样性和包容性会增强研究社区及其影响力,我们致力于开发,实施,跟踪,并报告我们的进展情况,以确保我们的编辑,顾问,审稿人和作者更加多样化,并确保所有作者都享有同等的待遇和机会在我们的期刊上发表。我们认识到我们目前还没有所有答案,但是我们寻求就如何改进期刊以使其更加多样化和包容性而向社区征询和倾听。首先,我们承诺采取以下行动:
  • 收集并公开我们期刊的多样性基线统计数据,涵盖我们的编辑,顾问,审稿人和作者;年度进度报告
  • 培训新的和现有的编辑人员,以识别并打断同行评审中的偏见
  • 包括期刊撰稿人的多样性,作为对主编绩效的明确衡量
  • 任命监察员作为编辑与我们社区之间的联络人
  • 为每份ACS期刊制定可行的多样性计划
收集并公开我们期刊内部多样性的基准统计数据,其中包括我们的编辑,顾问,审稿人和作者;年度进度报告培训新的和现有的编辑,以识别并消除同行评审中的偏见,包括将期刊撰稿人的多样性作为对总编辑绩效的明确衡量标准。任命监察员担任编辑与我们社区之间的联络人建立可行的多样性每个ACS期刊的计划这些只是初步计划和对话的开始:其他想法正在萌芽,我们承诺与您定期分享它们。我们邀请您通过我们的Axial网站发表有关如何做得更好的想法。我们正在认真听。我们鼓励您在自己的圈子中立即采取行动。在最近的社论中JACS副编辑Melanie Sanford(6)提供了一些实际步骤。花一点时间来了解有关这些行为的更多信息,以及如何将它们带入您的工作和生活中。我们每个人都有责任消除科学和工程界的种族主义和歧视;的确,要实现真正的改变,我们需要成为反种族主义者。我们在黑人社区看到的悲惨事件为实现这一目标提供了紧迫性。这项工作将是困难的,将迫使我们面对有关我们的信念和行动的艰难现实。我们完全希望您和社区中的每个人都能对我们负责。本文引用了其他6个出版物。本文尚未被其他出版物引用。本文引用了其他6个出版物。
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