Editorial: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Reporting Race and Ethnicity in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology.
Editorial: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Reporting Race and Ethnicity in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology.
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社论:多样性、公平和包容性:在儿科心理学杂志上报道种族和民族。
DOI:
10.1093/jpepsy/jsab063
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
Wu,YelenaP
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作者:
Palermo,TonyaM;Alderfer,MelissaA;Boerner,KatelynnE;Hilliard,MarisaE;Hood,AnnaM;Modi,AvaniC;Wu,YelenaP
Events over the past year related to the civil unrest, protests, and riots against systemic racism toward Black people in the United States, including the police killings of Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, and Elijah McClain, the modern-day lynching of Ahmaud Arbery, and the international catalyst triggered by the public murder of George Floyd during his arrest by Minnesota police officers, has brought an urgency in addressing racism in various contexts. These tragic injustices, only brought to light because bystanders courageously captured videos, represent just the tip of the iceberg of deeply entrenched racism that penetrates all aspects of life, institutions, and judicial and healthcare systems around the world. Of relevance to the Journal of Pediatric Psychology (JPP) are urgent calls to upend racism in psychological science (Buchanan et al., 2020; Roberts et al., 2020), which can occur in conducting, reporting, reviewing, and disseminating science. As highlighted by several scholars (eg, Buchanan et al., 2020), a dismantling of White supremacy is needed at the systems level because current practices are biased toward White scholars and White communities, and thus are not representative. If changes are not made, it reduces the potential impact of psychological science to make meaningful progress in diminishing persistent physical and mental health disparities across racial and ethnic groups. Journals play an important role in this gatekeeping process where the actions of editors and reviewers determine which science is disseminated and shape how the science is conducted and reported. JPP joins other biomedical and psychology journals (eg, Novins et al., 2020; Pachter, 2020) in its commitment to being an anti-racist journal. We acknowledge that JPP must do more to increase representation in pediatric psychology research, to support diversity, and to encourage the use of frameworks that explicitly incorporate social context (Matsui et al., 2020). To accomplish this goal, an anti-racist workgroup was formed from members of the JPP editorial team including the Editor, Associate Editors, and Assistant Editors. This editorial reports on the first project of the workgroup—to develop author and reviewer instructions for the reporting of race and ethnicity in papers submitted to JPP. To guide this effort, our workgroup reviewed key editorials, guidelines, and