A persistent lack of international representation on editorial boards in environmental biology
▻http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2002760
The scholars comprising journal editorial boards play a critical role in defining the trajectory of knowledge in their field. (...) Using metrics for quantifying the diversity of ecological communities, we quantified international representation on the 1985–2014 editorial boards of 24 environmental biology journals. (...) The size of the editorial community increased over time—the number of editors serving in 2014 was 4-fold greater than in 1985—as did the number of countries in which editors were based. Nevertheless, editors based outside the “Global North” (...) were extremely rare. Furthermore, 67.18% of all editors were based in either the United States or the United Kingdom. Consequently, geographic diversity—already low in 1985—remained unchanged through 2014.