Publication Practices, Race, and Racism

The practices and chosen content of healthcare and scientific journals are observed either to combat or to perpetuate racism:

Boyd RW, et al. 2020. On Racism: A New Standard for Publishing on Racial Health InequitiesHealth Affairs Blog July 2, 2020. DOI: 10.1377/hblog20200630.939347.

Brothers KB, Bennett RL, Cho MK. Taking an Antiracist Posture in Scientific Publications in Human Genetics and GenomicsGenetics in Medicine, Mar 1, 2021. doi: 10.1038/s41436-021-01109-w. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33649579.

Cooper RS, Nadkarni GN, Ogedegbe G. Race, Ancestry, and Reporting in Medical JournalsJAMA 2018, 320(15): 1531–1532. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.10960.

Flanagin A, Frey T, Christiansen SL, Bauchner H. The Reporting of Race and Ethnicity in Medical and Science Journals: Comments InvitedJAMA published online February 22, 2021. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.2104.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Using Population Descriptors in Genetics and Genomics Research: A New Framework for an Evolving Field. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press 2020. https://doi.org/10.17226/26902.

Thurman WA, Johnson KE, Sumpter DF. Words Matter: An Integrative Review of Institutionalized Racism in Nursing LiteratureAdvances in Nursing Science 2019, 42(2): 89–108. doi: 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000265.