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A new tool for evaluating health equity in academic journals; the Diversity Factor.
| العنوان: | A new tool for evaluating health equity in academic journals; the Diversity Factor. |
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| المؤلفون: | Gallifant J; Department of Intensive Care, Imperial College London NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom., Zhang J; Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom., Whebell S; Intensive Care Unit, Townsville University Hospital, Townsville, Queensland, Australia., Quion J; University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center, Quezon City, Philippines., Escobar B; Escuela de Ingeniería de Antioquia, Envigado, Colombia., Gichoya J; School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America., Herrera K; Faculty of Medicine, Military Hospital, Managua, Nicaragua., Jina R; The Epidemiology and Surveillance Section, National Institute for Occupational Health, National Health Laboratory Services, Gauteng Region, South Africa.; The Wits School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa., Chidambaram S; Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom., Mehndiratta A; Center for Global Development, Washington, DC, United States of America., Kimera R; Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda.; Department of Advanced Convergence, Handong Global University, Pohang-si, South Korea., Marcelo A; University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines., Fernandez-Marcelo PG; Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines., Osorio JS; ScienteLab, Bogota, Colombia., Villanueva C; Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Escuela Superior de Medicina, Mexico City, Mexico., Nazer L; Department of Pharmacy, King Hussein Cancer Center, Amman, Jordan., Dankwa-Mullan I; Merative, & Center for AI, Research, and Evaluation, IBM Watson Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.; Department of Health Policy and Management, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America., Celi LA; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Computational Physiology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.; Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. |
| المصدر: | PLOS global public health [PLOS Glob Public Health] 2023 Aug 14; Vol. 3 (8), pp. e0002252. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Aug 14 (Print Publication: 2023). |
| نوع المنشور: | Journal Article |
| اللغة: | English |
| بيانات الدورية: | Publisher: Public Library of Science Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 9918283779606676 Publication Model: eCollection Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 2767-3375 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 27673375 NLM ISO Abbreviation: PLOS Glob Public Health Subsets: PubMed not MEDLINE |
| أسماء مطبوعة: | Original Publication: San Francisco, California : Public Library of Science, [2021]- |
| مستخلص: | Current methods to evaluate a journal's impact rely on the downstream citation mapping used to generate the Impact Factor. This approach is a fragile metric prone to being skewed by outlier values and does not speak to a researcher's contribution to furthering health outcomes for all populations. Therefore, we propose the implementation of a Diversity Factor to fulfill this need and supplement the current metrics. It is composed of four key elements: dataset properties, author country, author gender and departmental affiliation. Due to the significance of each individual element, they should be assessed independently of each other as opposed to being combined into a simplified score to be optimized. Herein, we discuss the necessity of such metrics, provide a framework to build upon, evaluate the current landscape through the lens of each key element and publish the findings on a freely available website that enables further evaluation. The OpenAlex database was used to extract the metadata of all papers published from 2000 until August 2022, and Natural language processing was used to identify individual elements. Features were then displayed individually on a static dashboard developed using TableauPublic, which is available at www.equitablescience.com. In total, 130,721 papers were identified from 7,462 journals where significant underrepresentation of LMIC and Female authors was demonstrated. These findings are pervasive and show no positive correlation with the Journal's Impact Factor. The systematic collection of the Diversity Factor concept would allow for more detailed analysis, highlight gaps in knowledge, and reflect confidence in the translation of related research. Conversion of this metric to an active pipeline would account for the fact that how we define those most at risk will change over time and quantify responses to particular initiatives. Therefore, continuous measurement of outcomes across groups and those investigating those outcomes will never lose importance. Moving forward, we encourage further revision and improvement by diverse author groups in order to better refine this concept. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. (Copyright: © 2023 Gallifant et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.) |
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| تواريخ الأحداث: | Date Created: 20230814 Latest Revision: 20230816 |
| رمز التحديث: | 20240829 |
| مُعرف محوري في PubMed: | PMC10424852 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pgph.0002252 |
| PMID: | 37578942 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | MEDLINE |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 2767-3375 |
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| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pgph.0002252 |