2020
DOI: 10.1177/1077699020904169
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How the Geographic Diversity of Editorial Boards Affects What Is Published in JCR-Ranked Communication Journals

Abstract: This article tests whether the geographic diversity of editorial boards affects the diversity of research papers. Based on a content analysis of 84 journals listed in the Journal Citation Report, we show that diverse editorial boards are more likely to publish more diverse research articles, based on the country of origin of the first author and on where the data were collected. Our findings also indicate a negative association between (a) the impact factor and diversity of the research approach, (b) the journ… Show more

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“…We can offer at least three explanations for this phenomenon. According to the first, we assume that, since most Q1 journals are older than the newcomers in lower quartiles [18], their business models were developed before the historical period where open access became more important. Of course, these older journals usually offer hybrid, gold or green open access possibilities [13], but these are nothing more that the extensions of existing publication models [5,12].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We can offer at least three explanations for this phenomenon. According to the first, we assume that, since most Q1 journals are older than the newcomers in lower quartiles [18], their business models were developed before the historical period where open access became more important. Of course, these older journals usually offer hybrid, gold or green open access possibilities [13], but these are nothing more that the extensions of existing publication models [5,12].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Similar dominance was found in environmental biology [20] and public health [21] journals. As with gender, a positive association has been found between homogeneity by country of origin and acceptance of peer-reviewed papers [8], and also that journals with more geographically diverse editorial boards publish more diverse research articles [22].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The theoretical frameworks that students use in their research studies operate like regulatory and classificatory mechanisms, by means of which conceptual boundaries of a discipline are set, contested and policed (Silverman, 2013). The process of discipline formation involves theoretical delineations of a field of study -editorial boards of leading academic journals in the field play a key gatekeeping role (Goyanes and Demeter, 2020) -and the building of a corpus of texts held sacred by the adherents of the discipline (Foucault, 1977). As Bastalich (2015: 7) points out, the theoretical framework and extant scholarly literature of a given discipline exercise: the reiterative power of discipline discourse to illuminate the phenomenon that it names and regulates, hence 'becoming academic' is not so much about discovering the new, but learning the history, language, concepts, tropes and communication styles of a field area … This fact is at the heart of academic practice, perhaps most evident in the centrality of the literature review and of research citations more broadly, which work to delineate accepted knowledge from what is judged to be a disciplinary innovation.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%