Abstract
Statement of the Problem
This quantitative study was conducted to determine if there have been changes in the publication patterns of women in behavior analytic journals compared to an original study done by McSweeney et al. (2000). The field of behavior analysis is dominated by women, and, in previous studies, women have been found to publish in journals at a significantly lower rate than men.
Sources of Data
This study reviewed the same journals as the original study and added four newer journals for comparison, for a total of seven journals. The researcher used a data scrubbing procedure within EBSCOhost and downloaded all article information from 1997-2019 for each of the seven journals.
Conclusions Reached
The researcher found significant relationships between author gender and: overall publication rates, first authorship position, last authorship position, and the gender of the editor. While overall publication rates have improved over time, some journals were not publishing female authors at an equitable rate compared to their male counterparts. The researcher also found that the number of female editors-in-chief were very low compared to the gender makeup of the field.