Works Cited in this Resource

Citations are provided throughout this resource to help provide context and data for the kinds of inequities that exist within the scholarly communication space. The citations for each particular area discussed can be found below. These citations are limited to references cited in the discussion section of each page. Resources cited in the “What Can I Do?” sections are not listed here.

Peer Review

Bravo, G., Grimaldo, F., López-Iñesta, E., Mehmani, B, & Squazzoni, F. (2019). The effect of publishing peer review reports on referee behavior in five scholarly journals. Nature Communications, 10(322). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08250-2
Budden, A. E., Tregenza, T., Aarssen, L. W., Koricheva, J., Leimu, R., & Lortie, C. J. (2008). Double-blind review favours increased representation of female authors. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 21(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2007.07.008
Helmer, M., Schottdorf, M., Neef, A., & Battaglia, D. (2017). Research: Gender bias in scholarly peer review. eLife. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.21718
Le Goues, C., Brun, Y., Apel, S., Berger, E., Khurshid, S., & Smaragdakis, Y. (2018). Effectiveness of anonymization in double-blind review. Communications of the ACM, 61(6), 30–33. https://doi.org/10.1145/3208157
Liboiron, M., Zahara, A., & Schoot, I. (2018). Community peer review: A method to bring consent and self-determination into the sciences. Preprints.org, Article 2018060104.
Murray, D., Siler, K., Larivière, V., Chan, W. M., Collings, A. M., Raymond, J., & Sugimoto, C. R. (2019). Author-reviewer homophily in peer review. [Preprint] bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/400515
PeerJ. (2018, May 23). Who’s afraid of open peer review? PeerJblog. https://peerj.com/blog/post/100580518238/whos-afraid-of-open-peer-review/
Publons. (2018).Global state of peer review. https://clarivate.com/lp/global-state-of-peer-review-report/
Roberts, SG & Verhoef, T. (2016) Double-blind reviewing at EvoLang11 reveals gender bias. Journal of Language Evolution,1(2), 163-167. https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzw009
Ross-Hellauer, T. (2017). What is open peer review? A systematic review. F1000Research, 6(588). https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.11369.2

Editorial Boards

Akst, J. (2021, June 14). Survey Finds Lack of Diversity Among Journal Editors. The Scientist. https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/survey-finds-lack-of-diversity-among-journal-editors-68880
Hutchinson, D., Priya Das, Lall, M. D., Hill, J., & Khosa, F. (2021). Emergency Medicine Journal Editorial Boards: Analysis of Gender, H-Index, Publications, Academic Rank, and Leadership Roles. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health, 22(2), 353–359. https://doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2020.11.49122
Palser, E. R., Lazerwitz, M., & Fotopoulou , A. (2022). Gender and geographical disparity in editorial boards of journals in psychology and neuroscience. Nature Neuroscience, 272–279. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-022-01012-w
Wu, K. J. (2020, November 2). Scientific journals commit to diversity but lack the data. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/science/diversity-science-journals.html

Authors

Broderick, N. A., & Casadevall, A. (2019). Meta-Research: Gender inequalities among authors who contributed equally. eLife. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.36399
Calaza, K. C, Erthal, F. C. S., Pereira, M. G., Macario, K. C. D., Daflon, V. T., David, I. P. A., Castro, H. C., Vargas, M. D., Martins, L. B., Stariolo, J. B., Volchan, E., & de Oliveira, L. (2021). Facing Racism and Sexism in Science by Fighting Against Social Implicit Bias: A Latina and Black Woman’s Perspective. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.671481
Else, H., & Perkel, J. M. (2022). The giant plan to track diversity in research journals. Nature, 602, 566–570. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00426-7
Hart, K. L., & Perlis, R. H. (2021). Authorship inequality: a bibliometric study of the concentration of authorship among a diminishing number of individuals in high-impact medical journals, 2008–2019. BMJ Open , 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046002
Langin, K. (2021, September 1). Are women researchers shortchanged on authorship? New study highlights gender disparities. Science Careers. https://www.science.org/content/article/are-women-researchers-shortchanged-authorship-new-study-highlights-gender-disparities
Malisch, J. L., Harris, B. N., Sherrer, S. M., Lewis, K. A., Shepherd, S. L., McCarthy, P. C., Spott, J. L., Karam, E. P., Ramalingam, L., Talley, A. E., Cañas-Carrell, J. E., Ardon-Dryer, K., Weiser, D. A., Bernal, X. E., & Deitloff, J. (2020). In the wake of COVID-19, academia needs new solutions to ensure gender equity. PNAS, 117(27), 15378–15381. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2010636117
Merriman, R., Galizia, I., Tanaka, S., Sheffel, A., Buse, K., & Hawkes, S. (2021). The gender and geography of publishing: a review of sex/gender reporting and author representation in leading general medical and global health journals. BMJ Global Health, 6. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005672
Politzer-Ahles, S., Girolamo, T., & Ghali, S. (2020). Preliminary evidence of linguistic bias in academic reviewing . Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2020.100895
Pritchard, S. S., Sarathy, B., Brady, L. M., Brosnan , K. A., Langston, N., Norton Greene, A., Wakild, E., Cohn , J., Watt , L. A., Jacobs , N. J., Gregg, S. M., & Elkind , S. (2021, August 27). A Disturbing Pattern. Inside Higher Ed. https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2021/08/27/entrenched-inequity-not-appropriately-citing-scholarship-women-and-people-color
Reid, R., & Curry, T. (2019). Are We There Yet? Addressing Diversity in Political Science Subfields. PS: Political Science & Politics, 52(2), 281-286. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096518002068
Wellmon, C., & Piper, A. (2017, October 2). Publication, Power, and Patronage: On Inequality and Academic Publishing. Critical Inquiry. https://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/publication_power_and_patronage_on_inequality_and_academic_publishing

Scholarly Publishers

Alperin, J.P. & Costas, R. World scaled by number of documents published with authors from each country. https://scholcommlab.ca/cartogram/ Accessed April 27, 2023.
Bell, K. & Mills, D. (2020, October 12). What we know about the academic journal landscape reflects global inequalities. LSE Impact Blog. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2020/10/12/what-we-know-about-the-academic-journal-landscape-reflects-global-inequalities/
C4DSC: Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications. (n.d.). Workplace Equity Survey. https://c4disc.org/workplace-equity-survey/
Europe PMC. Preprints in Europe PMC. (n.d.) https://europepmc.org/Preprints
Greco, A. N., Wharton, R. M., & Brand, A. (2016). Demographics of scholarly publishing and communication professionals. Learned Publishing, 29(2), 97–101. https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1017
Noble, S. U. (2019) Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. NYU Press.
Page, B. (2020, April 7). Elsevier makes small reduction to gender pay gap. The Bookseller. https://www.thebookseller.com/news/elsevier-makes-small-reduction-high-gender-pay-gap-1199550
Reidsma, M. (2019) Masked by Trust: Bias in Library Discovery. Litwin Books & Library Juice Press. https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/library_books/30
Roberts, N. (2021). Diversity and Inclusion in Publishing: What Do We Know? Publishing Research Quarterly, 37, 255–263. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-021-09805-w
Roh, C. (2016). Inequalities in Publishing. Urban Library Journal, 22 (2). https://academicworks.cuny.edu/ulj/vol22/iss2/2
Taylor, S., Spilka, S., Monahan, K., Mulhern, I., & Wachter, J. (2020). Evaluating equity in scholarly publishing. Learned Publishing, 33(4), 353–367. https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1301

Libraries

Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO. (2023, April 16). Library Professionals: Facts & Figures 2023 Fact Sheet. https://www.dpeaflcio.org/factsheets/library-professionals-facts-and-figures
Espinal, I., Sutherland, T., & Roh, C. (2018). A holistic approach for inclusive librarianship: Decentering whiteness in our profession. Library Trends, 67(1), 147–162. https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2018.0030
Espinosa de los Monteros, P., & Mandernach Longmeier, M. (2022). Developing globally inclusive practices for library instruction sessions. New Review of Academic Librarianship. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614533.2022.2095289
Ewen, L. (2022, June 1). Quitting time: The pandemic is exacerbating attrition among library workers. American Libraries Magazine, 2022(June), 38–41. https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2022/06/01/quitting-time/
Galvan, A. (2015). Soliciting performance, hiding bias: Whiteness and librarianship. In the Library With The Lead Pipe. https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2015/soliciting-performance-hiding-bias-whiteness-and-librarianship/
Hudson-Ward, A. (2021, March 30). The missed moment to elevate open access as DEIA imperative. Choice. https://www.choice360.org/tie-post/the-missed-moment-to-elevate-open-access-as-deia-imperative/
Knox, E. J. (n.d.). Remarks from ALA Midwinter 2018 President’s Program. Emily J.M. Knox, PHD, MSLIS. https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2018/06/01/are-libraries-neutral/
Kung, J., Fraser, K., & Winn, D. (2020). Diversity initiatives to recruit and retain academic librarians: A systematic review. College & Research Libraries, 81(1), 96. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.81.1.96
Pho, A., Abumeeiz, S., Bisbee, K., Mody, N., Romero, R., Tranfield, W., & Worsham, D. (2022). You only get one shot: Critically exploring and reimagining the one-shot instruction model. C&RL: College and Research Libraries, 83(5), 726-738. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.83.5.726
Ros, A. (2019, March 20). The bias hiding in your library. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/the-bias-hiding-in-your-library-111951
Saunders, L, & Wong, M.A. (2020). Instruction in Libraries and Information Centers: An Introduction. Windsor and Downs Press. https://doi.org/10.21900/wd.12
White, H. (2018) Decolonizing the way libraries organize. IFLA Library. http://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/2221
University of California. (n.d.) Publisher OA Agreements and Discounts. Office of Scholarly Communication. Retrieved March 9, 2023, from https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/for-authors/publishing-discounts/.

The Need for Demographic Data

Else, H., & Perkel, J. M. (2022, February 28). The giant plan to track diversity in research journals. Nature, 602, 566–570. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00426-7
McFarling, U. L. (2021, April 12). When a cardiologist flagged the lack of diversity at premier medical journals, the silence was telling. STAT. https://www.statnews.com/2021/04/12/lack-of-diversity-at-premier-medical-journals-jama-nejm/
National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES). (2021, April 29). Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering. NSF 21-321. Alexandria, VA: National Science Foundation. https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf21321/report.
Royal Society of Chemistry. (n.d.). Diversity data collection in scholarly publishing. Policy & Perspectives. https://www.rsc.org/new-perspectives/talent/diversity-data-collection-in-scholarly-publishing/
Wu, K. J. (2020, November 2). Scientific Journals Commit to Diversity but Lack the Data. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/science/diversity-science-journals.html?smid=url-share