Trends in the Proportion of Women as peer reviewers in JAMA, 2009-2018
Kipersztok, L.; Masukume, G.; Gonzalez-Alvarez, J.; Grech, V.
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The achievement of gender equity by 2030 is one of the international Sustainable Development Goals adopted by United Nations member states. Peer review is crucial to academia and diverse perspectives add significant value by avoiding publication biases. We investigated the trend in female peer reviewers in JAMA, a globally influential medical journal, over the past decade. Based on publicly available data with a sample size of 33,745, we found an increased proportion of female peer reviewers from 23.9% in 2009, to a peak of 29.1% in 2018. Despite an increase in the proportion of female peer reviewers over the past decade, if we assume a linear trend, gender equity in peer reviewers for JAMA would not be reached until 2065, beyond the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal target.
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