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Elsevier diversity push amid slow progress on female authorship

Academic publisher reports only slight shift in gender balance of study authors in past decade

Leading academic publisher Elsevier says it will do more to promote gender diversity in research publishing, after releasing figures showing male authors still outnumber female authors across the globe.

The company has promised that a high-level inclusion and diversity advisory board—launched on 5 March and chaired by its chief executive Kumsal Bayazit and editor-in-chief of the Lancet Richard Horton—will be more than just a talking shop.

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