Addressing Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Research

That The Powerful Play Goes On

“…This includes changes in the Editorial Board membership (47% of Editorial Board members in August 2016 identified as women, with greater diversity in age, career stage, ethnicity, professional discipline, and nationality) and adoption of person first language guidelines in August 2018 (Seto, 2018; Willis & Letourneau, 2018). In particular, I want to note that several initiatives were launched in October 2022 to reflect JEDI principles, including further revisions to the submission guidelines; temporary open-access publication of authors from under-represented groups and geographies; and subsidized professional copy editing services for authors who do not have English as a first language and who have submitted manuscripts that could be accepted for publication if the writing was professionally copy-edited (Fanniff & Alexander, 2022; Seto, 2022).…”