Only a third of editors at public health and environmental science journals are women, says a new study highlighting the “glaring lack of diversity” in this area of scholarly publishing.
The study, published in Plos Global Public Health, looked at almost 600 journals to find that 65 per cent of their 27,722 editors were men.
The paper also found that more than three-quarters of editors were affiliated with institutions in high-income countries, such as the US, UK, Australia and Canada.
