Reporting Race and Ethnicity in Genetics Research: Do Journal Recommendations or Resources Matter?
Reporting Race and Ethnicity in Genetics Research: Do Journal Recommendations or Resources Matter?
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DOI：
10.1007/s11948-014-9596-y
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发表时间：
2015-10-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Nowak, Kamila
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作者：
Sankar, Pamela;Cho, Mildred K.;Nowak, Kamila
尽管呼吁仔细审查在遗传学研究中使用种族和族裔作为变量，但这些变量仍然没有得到充分解释，在研究出版物中使用也不一致。在以前的研究中，我们发现已发表的遗传学研究未能遵循为解决这一问题而提出的建议，例如解释这些标签分配给人群的基础。本研究分析了使用种族或民族术语的遗传研究文章，探讨了与遗传研究中种族和民族报告改善相关的期刊的可能特征。一份期刊通过一篇社论或其对作者的说明来表明其对改善遗传研究中种族和民族使用方式的承诺，这是遵循关于报告种族和民族的建议的最强预测因素。期刊影响因子对关注这些问题的积极影响有限，这表明与影响因子较高的期刊相关的编辑资源不足以改善实践。我们的研究结果重申，种族和民族变量在遗传研究中的使用不一致，但也揭示了期刊如何通过强调科学家需要仔细审查这些变量在工作中的使用来改善实践。
Appeals to scrutinize the use of race and ethnicity as variables in genetics research notwithstanding, these variables continue to be inadequately explained and inconsistently used in research publications. In previous research, we found that published genetic research fails to follow suggestions offered for addressing this problem, such as explaining the basis on which these labels are assigned to populations. This study, an analysis of genetic research articles using race or ethnicity terms, explores possible features of journals that are associated with improved reporting of race and ethnicity in genetic research. A journal's expressed commitment to improving how race and ethnicity are used in genetic research, demonstrated by an editorial or in its instructions to authors, was the strongest predictor of following recommendations about reporting race and ethnicity. Journal impact factor had only a limited positive effect on attention to these issues, suggesting that editorial resources associated with higher impact factor journals are not sufficient to improve practices. Our findings reiterate that race and ethnicity variables are used inconsistently in genetic research, but also shed light on how journals might improve practices by highlighting the need for scientists to carefully scrutinize the use of these variables in their work.