“Here be dragons!” The gross under-representation of the Global South on editorial boards in Geography,The Geographical Journal

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“Here be dragons!” The gross under-representation of the Global South on editorial boards in Geography
The Geographical Journal ( IF 3.6 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-10 , DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12405
David Hedding ₁ , Gregory Breetzke ₂

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One manifestation of the glaring lack of equality, diversity, and inclusion in higher education relates to the underrepresentation of certain individuals and/or regions in the scholarly publication process. Here, we analyse the affiliations of editorial board members in 126 Geography journals. Specifically, we examine editorial board membership by region and determine the extent to which the regional representation of editorial board members is associated with journal impact factor as a measure of journal reach and quality. Of the 5,202 editorial board members examined, almost 80% are located in mainland Europe, North America, and the British Isles, while roughly five percent are located in Central America, South America, the Middle East, and Africa combined. Moreover, editorial board members located in these four regions from the Global South are most often editorial board members of journals in the lowest quartile (by impact factor). These findings highlight the outdated and exclusionary practices that pervade the scholarly publication process in science in general, and Geography specifically.

中文翻译：

“这里是龙！” 全球南方在《地理》编辑委员会中的代表性严重不足

高等教育中明显缺乏平等、多样性和包容性的一种表现与学术出版过程中某些个人和/或地区的代表性不足有关。在这里，我们分析了 126 种地理期刊的编委成员的隶属关系。具体来说，我们按地区检查编委成员，并确定编委成员的区域代表性与期刊影响因子的相关程度，作为衡量期刊覆盖面和质量的指标。在接受调查的 5,202 名编委会成员中，近 80% 位于欧洲大陆、北美和不列颠群岛，而大约 5% 位于中美洲、南美、中东和非洲的总和。而且，来自全球南方的这四个地区的编委成员通常是处于最低四分位（按影响因子）的期刊的编委。这些发现突出了普遍存在于科学学术出版过程中的过时和排他性做法，特别是地理学。

更新日期：2021-07-10

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