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International Perspectives in U.S. Psychological Science Journals: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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... The consequence of conducting To discuss these challenges and suggest solutions basic science only in high-income, Western countries is to incorporate international perspectives into U.S. that psychological science is defined by the experiences psychological journals, the USNC invited journal editors, of individuals in those countries.
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... obtain data, but do not involve local scientists in interpreting the results or in subsequent publications. All three activities highlighted the importance of and She emphasized that such scenarios do not bring obstacles to publishing high-quality global research international perspectives to U.S.
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... . LMIC representation among editorial staff, editors considered their LMIC submissions at a level that editorial boards, and publications committees is they consider fair and appropriate.
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... They include local authors drawing over non-WEIRD science, but still with significant from local data; U.S. authors originally from other underrepresentation by international authors8 (see Figure 2)
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... She and current psychological constructs to "adequately deal colleagues published a paper in Nature Climate Change in with culture in our theories and models and to better 2017 about the need for a connection between the Global accommodate cross-cultural differences and similarities South and North to improve science.11 In the Global in our theories." 10 South, Koller said, "it is very important to improve the quality of studies of our students and new researchers to PANEL: ISSUES AND CONCERNS IN PUBLISHING PAPERS BY LMIC publish in U.S. journals." But she also shared examples AUTHORS of prejudice in comments from reviewers related to data, Suman Verma (Panjab University, India)
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... Very few organizations practices, which she noted are on the rise in part because track international diversity of reviewers or authors, he of the challenges to publish in mainstream journals. observed, and even fewer look at diversity of reviewers She referred participants to a 2020 Inter-Academy or authors hailing from HICs as compared with those Partnership workshop report on this topic for strategies from LMICs.
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... " The barriers to international authors are real, he said, Gewirtz added that many authors submit papers with and journal editors must understand which barriers are good science, but the papers are not at the English- and are not under their control. For example, beyond language standard that a journal can accept.
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... It is also helpful when a society's international and little previous work has been carried out, researchers publications committees work together, she observed, may have to use exploratory qualitative methods, which in such areas as policy development and special issues. makes their research challenging to publish although García Coll urged international representation on every often essential to building a scientific base in a new society committee, not just an international committee.
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... Overview by Breakout Group Fields such as comparative education and psychology According to spokesperson Rachel Walther (SRCD) , are tied to colonial interests, knowledge production, Group 1 spoke about the onus on editors, societies, and and values based in the Global North and sometimes publishers to strengthen international perspectives but mainly serving the Global North, Dryden-Peterson also recognized the time pressures that journal editors said.
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... Editorial Boards: Editorial boards should buy in to the goal of emphasizing an international presence, Elevating international equity: An important starting noted Group 3. It is important not only to diversify point, according to Group 4, is to add an international the boards, but also all members may need training focus to a journal's mission statement that explicitly or mentorship, commented Group 1, and enlarged for states it welcomes LMIC scholars, research that has an greater representation, according to Group 2.
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... how to increase LMIC submissions and acceptances. For Group 5 urged training gatekeepers on watching out example, they suggested providing editorial, APA style, for prejudicial microaggressions that could prevent and language assistance (Group 3)
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... Group 1 suggested societies put pressure on publishers Predatory Journals: Several groups warned about predatory to allocate funds to authors to pay open access fees. journals targeting international scholars.
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... Prioritizing International Perspectives: Encapsulating the many issues discussed during the workshop, Group 1 October 2022 | 13
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... SPONSOR This workshop was supported by the American Psychological Association, Cognitive Science Society, International Society for Research on Aggression, International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, National Science Foundation, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Society for Research in Child Development, Society for Research on Adolescence, Society for Text and Discourse, Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, The Center for the Study of Culture, Health, and Human Development (University of Connecticut) , and an anonymous donor.


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