Publication date: Oct 01, 2025
Journal editorial and society executive boards have widespread impacts, however, the associated leadership diversity remains underexplored. Our study evaluated such diversity across four surgical specialties before the influences of COVID-19. This retrospective, cross-sectional study obtained perceived gender and race of identified leaders from publicly available websites. Leadership of the top three journals and journal-affiliated societies based on the 2021 Journal Citation Reports journal impact factor was evaluated for subspecialties within neurosurgery, orthopaedic, general, and plastic surgery. Leadership diversity within 58 journals and 55 societies were reviewed. Orthopedics had a significantly lower proportion of females (p
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | COVID-19 |