Most scientific editors still come from US or UK

Academic journals lack international editorial board members, as most editors are based either in the US or UK – a situation that hasn’t changed over the last three decades, a study evaluating environmental biology journals has found. The team analysed the geographical makeup of 24 environmental biology journals’ editorial boards between 1985 and 2014. Out of the 3827 scientists who served on the journals’ editorial boards over the last three decades, 55% were based in the US and 12% in the UK. 98% of editors-in-chief are based in the ‘global north’, the countries that concentrate most global wealth.