A leading academic journal has required its researchers to describe in detail how “gender and sex” was accounted for for each of their individual studies.
The guidelines, put into effect by Nature’s top executives last week, also require staff to consider how their findings “might perpetuate gender stereotypes” before releasing any findings, officials announced last week.
“From now on, researchers submitting papers to a subset of Nature Portfolio journals will be asked to indicate whether and how gender and sex have been considered in their study design,” the editors of the prestigious British journal wrote in a paper last week, in to whom they announced the policy .
Leading academic journal Nature has introduced a new policy that requires its researchers to describe in detail how “gender and sex” was accounted for for each of their individual studies. The magazine, headed by British geneticist Magdalena Skipper, had previously come under fire for failing to align with the woke left
The guidelines, put into effect by Brass in the scientific journal last week, require collaborators to consider how their findings “might perpetuate gender stereotypes” before publishing results, officials said in a comment last week, outlining the change was announced
The paper, an op-ed titled “Nature Journals Raise the Bar on Sex and Gender Reporting in Research,” further urges scientists and clinicians conducting studies to “state that sex and gender analysis were not performed and clarify , why”.
According to officials at the 153-year-old publication, which has a long history of publishing tomes of medical and scientific significance, the rule seeks to remove the bias created by research studies that “do not consider sex and gender.”
The announcement also saw that organizers required researchers to “note in the title and/or in the abstract whether the results are for one gender or gender only,” using the terms “sex” and “gender” separately – the former refers to biological sex and the latter describes the gender one identifies with.
The announcement also saw organizers require researchers to note in the title and/or abstract whether the results are for one gender or gender only, and to use the terms “gender” and “gender” separately — the former refers to biological sex and the latter describes the sex with which one identifies.
The paper, an op-ed titled “Nature Journals Raise the Bar on Sex and Gender Reporting in Research,” further urges scientists and clinicians conducting studies to “state that sex and gender analysis were not performed and clarify , why”.
The changes will apply primarily to studies analyzing human participants, staff at the journal said, but they will also include studies providing data on animals — and even cells.
According to officials at the 153-year-old publication, which has a long history of publishing tomes of medical and scientific significance, the rule seeks to remove the bias created by research studies that “do not consider sex and gender.”
“The changes apply to studies involving human participants, other vertebrates, or cell lines where gender and gender are appropriate considerations,” the collaborators wrote.
Cell lines refer to cultures taken from a single human or animal cell. The samples, which effectively serve as clones of the original cell, are then used for testing, as testing on a living human or animal cell is considered inhuman.
Researchers must also provide proof of “informed consent” before sharing data about an individual’s sex or gender, officials write.
Scientists are also asked to categorize data by sex and sex and to clearly distinguish the two samples.
“The goal here is to increase understanding of the extent to which gender and gender reporting are already part of study design, data collection and analysis in research published by these journals,” the journal’s Brass wrote of the new guideline.
“The journals will also assess the uptake of the changes by authors and reviewers so that we can replicate them as we learn from experience.”
The company says four of its journals — Nature Cancer, Nature Communications, Nature Medicine and Nature Metabolism — will promote policy starting in June to raise awareness about the underrepresentation of sex and sex in other academic journals, which they said failed to account for sex and sex in their studies.
Staffers wrote: “By introducing these changes, we want to promote transparency in the study design and ultimately make the results more accurate. Over time, we hope to see gender and gender analysis incorporated as standard in study design.’
Since then, 21-year-old Nature veteran Skipper, 53, has shown a desire to “transform” science by using more “social science.”
The magazine, headed by British geneticist Magdalena Skipper, had previously come under fire for failing to align with the woke left.
In April 2020, in the early days of the pandemic, the newspaper came under fire for describing the coronavirus as a Chinese disease in one of its journals, despite the fact that it was once common to associate viral diseases with their outbreak area.
After facing a quick public outcry and accusations of racism, Nature admitted “a mistake on our part” because it was part of the press coverage labeling the virus as Chinese.
Since then, 21-year-old wildlife veteran Skipper, 53, has shown a desire to “transform” science by using more “social science.”
Nature did not immediately respond to ‘s request for comment regarding the new policy on Monday.