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April 10, 2026Journal of Burn Care & ResearchOpen Access

Assessing Racial and Geographic Disparities Across the Entirety of Burns Literature

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FEFrancesco M. EgroKDKian DaneshiSTSarah M. Tepe

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This analysis reveals significant ethnic and geographic diversity in burns literature authorship, indicating global representation.

Key Points

  • The aim is to analyze racial and geographic disparities in authorship within burns literature over four decades.
  • Analyzed 18,275 articles from 12 major burns journals from 1982 to 2025.
  • Utilized a multi-layer demographic inference system for gender and ethnicity classification.
  • Achieved 87.8% gender classification success and 73.2% ethnicity classification success.
  • Asian authors represented 43.5% of classified articles, while White authors comprised 31.9%.
  • Significant increase in Asian representation from 37.9% in the 1980s to 47.2% in the 2020s (p=.006).
  • Statistically significant patterns emerged in international collaboration and geographic representation over four decades.

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Egro et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d8968f6c1944d70ce08154https://doi.org/10.1093/jbcr/irag033.349
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