Table 3.
Description of manuscripts (n=50)
| # Manuscripts per Author, Mean (Range) | 1.72 (0–2) |
|---|---|
| Guidance on Use of Race in Instructions for Authors | 01 |
| Race Mentioned at Any Point in Manuscript | 42 (84%) |
| Title | 21 (42%) |
| Introduction | 30 (60%) |
| Methods | 30 (60%) |
| Tables or results | 33 (66%) |
| Discussion | 29 (58%) |
| Race defined or explained in manuscript | 9 (18%) |
| Conceptualization of race | 13 (26%) |
| Social construct | 7 (14%) |
| Biological construct | 4 (8%) |
| Combined | 2 (4%) |
| Could not be determined | 37 (74%) |
| Concordance between interview and manuscript* | 9/13=full match 3/13=partial match 1/13=no match2 |
*
Of those manuscripts where conceptualization of race could be determined (n=13);
1
10% (4 of 42) referred to the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals, which asks for description of the sample, suggests avoiding the term “race” and asks for investigators to “specify what the descriptors mean”;
2
Full match is defined as having the same conceptualization of race in the interview and in both of the manuscripts, partial match as having the same conceptualization of race in the interview and 1 out of the 2 manuscripts, and no match as having the different conceptualization of race in the interview and the manuscripts.