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Confronting Racism in Chemistry Journals

Cynthia J. Burrows (1) , Jiaxiang Huang (2) , Shu Wang (3) , Hyun Jae Kim (4) , Gerald J. Meyer (5) , Kirk Schanze (6) , T. Randall Lee (7) , Jodie L. Lutkenhaus (8) , David Kaplan (9) , Christopher M Jones (10) , Carolyn Bertozzi (11) , Laura Kiessling (12) , Mary Beth Mulcahy (13) , M. G. Finn (10) , Joel D. Blum (14) , Craig W. Lindsley (15) , Prashant Kamat (16) , Wonyong Choi (17) , Shane Snyder (18) , Courtney Aldrich (19) , Stuart Rowan (20) , Bin Liu (21) , Dennis C. Liotta (22) , Paul S. Weiss (23) , Deqing Zhang (24) , Krishna N. Ganesh (25) , Harry A. Atwater (26) , J. Justin Gooding (27) , David T. Allen (28) , Christopher Voigt (12) , Jonathan V Sweedler (29) , Vincent M. Rotello (30) , Sébastien Lecommandoux (31, 32) , Shana Jocette Sturla (33) , Sharon Hammes-Schiffer (34) , Jillian Buriak (35) , Jonathan William Steed (36) , Hongwei Wu (37) , Julie Beth Zimmerman (34) , Bryan W. Brooks (38) , Phillip Savage (39) , William B. Tolman (40) , Thomas F. Hofmann (41) , Joan F. Brennecke (16) , Thomas A. Holmes (42) , Jr. Kenneth M. Merz (43) , Gustavo Scuseria (44) , William Jorgensen (34) , Gunda I. Georg (45) , Shaomeng Wang (14) , Philip Proteau (46) , John R. Yates Iii (47) , Peter Stang (48) , Gilbert C Walker (49) , Marc A. Hillmyer (50) , Lynne S. Taylor (51) , Teri W. Odom (2) , Erick Carreira (33) , Kai Rossen (52) , Paul Chirik (53) , Scott J. Miller (34) , Joan-Emma Shea (54) , Anne Mccoy (55) , Martin Zanni (56) , Gregory Hartland (16) , Gregory Scholes (53) , Joseph A. Loo (57) , James Milne (58) , Sarah B. Tegen (59) , Daniel T. Kulp (59) , Julia Laskin (51)
1 University of Utah School of Medicine [Salt Lake City]
2 Northwestern University [Evanston]
3 BNU - Beijing Normal University
4 Yonsei University
5 UNC - University of North Carolina [Chapel Hill]
6 UNC - University of North Carolina System
7 Department of Chemistry [University of Houston]
8 Texas A&M University [College Station]
9 Tufts University [Medford]
10 Georgia Institute of Technology [Atlanta]
11 Stanford University
12 MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
13 SNL - Sandia National Laboratories [Albuquerque]
14 University of Michigan [Ann Arbor]
15 Vanderbilt University [Nashville]
16 UND - University of Notre Dame [Indiana]
17 POSTECH - Pohang University of Science and Technology
18 Michigan State University [East Lansing]
19 UMN - University of Minnesota [Twin Cities]
20 University of Chicago
21 NUS - National University of Singapore
22 Department of Chemistry [Emory]
23 Department of Physics and Astronomy [UCLA, Los Angeles]
24 Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
25 IISER Pune - Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune
26 CALTECH - California Institute of Technology
27 University of Oxford
28 University of Texas at Austin [Austin]
29 UIUC - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Urbana]
30 UMass Amherst - University of Massachusetts [Amherst]
31 LCPO - Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques
32 Team 3 LCPO : Polymer Self-Assembly & Life Sciences
33 ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich]
34 Yale University [New Haven]
35 University of Alberta
36 Duke University [Durham]
37 Curtin University
38 Baylor University
39 Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University
40 WUSTL - Washington University in Saint Louis
41 TUM - Technische Universität Munchen - Technical University Munich - Université Technique de Munich
42 ISU - Iowa State University
43 Michigan State University System
44 Rice University [Houston]
45 University of Minnesota System
46 OSU - Oregon State University
47 The Scripps Research Institute [La Jolla, San Diego]
48 UC Berkeley - University of California [Berkeley]
49 Department of Chemistry [University of Toronto]
50 Department of Anthropology [University of Minnesota]
51 Purdue University [West Lafayette]
52 Lundbeck SAS
53 Department of Chemistry [Princeton]
54 CCS-UCSB - Chemistry and Biochemistry [Santa Barbara]
55 OSU - Ohio State University [Columbus]
56 University of Wisconsin-Madison
57 UCLA - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
58 ACS Publications
59 American Chemical Society
Hyun Jae Kim
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Jonathan William Steed
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Hongwei Wu
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Gustavo Scuseria
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Peter Stang
Kai Rossen
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James Milne
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Julia Laskin

Résumé

We confront the terrible reality that systemic racism and discrimination impacts the daily personal and professional lives of many members of the scientific community and broader society. In the U.S., the brutal killing of George Floyd while in police custody is one of the most recent examples of the centuries of systemic violence suffered by Black Americans. This moment and its aftermath lay bare the legacies of racism and its exclusionary practices. Let us be clear: we, the Editors, Staff, and Governance Members of ACS Publications condemn the tragic deaths of Black people and stand in solidarity with Black members of the science and engineering community. Moreover, ACS condemns racism, discrimination, and harassment in all forms. We will not tolerate practices and viewpoints that exclude or demean any member of our community. Despite these good intentions, we recognize that our community has not done enough to provide an environment for Black chemists to thrive. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, Chairwoman of the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology said, "So far, we have gotten by with a STEM workforce that does not come close to representing the diversity of our nation. However, if we continue to leave behind so much of our nation's brainpower, we cannot succeed." 1 Indeed, the U.S. National Science Foundation notes that Blacks and other under-represented minority groups continue to be under-represented in science and engineering education and employment. 2 What is abundantly clear in this moment is that this lack of representation is a symptom of systemic racism across all levels of education and professional life. We know that supportive words are not enough. We must develop and implement a concrete plan for changing our trajectory. Publications and citations are academic currency, and while we like to think publishing a manuscript is "just about the science", we know that is not true for everyone. We have seen the biases (largely through the lens of gender and in Western countries because of the limitations in bibliometric analyses) and applaud our colleagues at the RSC for their massive study that explored these gender barriers in the publishing pipeline 3 and their recent Inclusion and Diversity Framework. 4 At the present time, unfortunately, less is known about the effects of race and ethnicity on publishing success. A study published in PeerJ, however, found that unprofessional reviewer comments had a disproportionate effect on authors from under-represented groups. 5 As the world's leading society publisher, we have a responsibility to aggressively combat bias in all aspects of the publishing process, including systemic under-representation of Blacks in this endeavor (no ACS journal is currently led by a Black Editor-in-Chief). Within ACS Publications, we actively track gender and geographic diversity of editors, advisors, authors, and reviewers, and we anecdotally report on race of editors. Diversity encompasses many more dimensions than these, and we acknowledge that we can do much more than we have. We affirm that diversity and inclusion strengthen the research community and its impact, and we are committed to developing, implementing, tracking, and reporting on our progress to ensure that our editors, advisors, reviewers, and authors are more diverse and that all authors receive the same fair treatment and opportunity to publish in our journals. We acknowledge that we do not have all the answers now, but we seek to hear from and listen to our community on how we can improve our journals to be more diverse and inclusive. As first steps, we commit to the taking the following actions: • Gathering and making public our baseline statistics on diversity within our journals, encompassing our editors, advisors, reviewers, and authors; annually reporting on progress • Training new and existing editors to recognize and interrupt bias in peer review • Including diversity of journal contributors as an explicit measurement of Editor-in-Chief performance • Appointing an ombudsperson to serve as a liaison between Editors and our Community • Developing an actionable diversity plan for each ACS journal These are only initial plans and the start of a conversation: other ideas are beginning to germinate, and we commit to sharing them with you regularly. We invite you contribute your ideas on how we can do better via our Axial website. We are listening carefully. We encourage you to take immediate action in your own circles. In a recent editorial, JACS Associate Editor Melanie Sanford 6 offered practical steps to take now. Take a moment to find out more about these actions and how to bring them into your work and your life. We all have a responsibility to eradicate racism and discrimination in the science and engineering community; indeed, to make a real difference, we need to be antiracist. The tragic events we have seen in the Black community provide great urgency to this goal. The work will be difficult and will force us to confront hard realities about our beliefs and actions. We fully expect that you, and everyone in the community, will hold us accountable.
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hal-02878402 , version 1 (23-06-2020)

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Cynthia J. Burrows, Jiaxiang Huang, Shu Wang, Hyun Jae Kim, Gerald J. Meyer, et al.. Confronting Racism in Chemistry Journals. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2020, 12 (26), pp.28925-28927. ⟨10.1021/acsami.0c10979⟩. ⟨hal-02878402⟩
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