How inclusive is the EGU? Editorial boards of EGU journals show a disbalance in European countries of affiliation

• Main Authors: Timar-Gabor, Alida, Matenco, Liviu, Vilibić, Ivica, Stadmark, Johanna, Popp, Andrea, Didenkulova, Ira, Conley, Daniel, Wingate, Lisa, Ervens, Barbara, Jesus-Rydin, Claudia
• Other Authors: Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Ruđer Boˇskovi´c Institute, Division for Marine and Environmental Research, Zagreb, Croatia, Department of Geology, Lund University, Lund, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Hydrology Research, Norrköping, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Oslo, INRAE, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, Villenave d’Ornon, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand (ICCF), Institut de Chimie - CNRS Chimie (INC-CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)-Institut national polytechnique Clermont Auvergne (INP Clermont Auvergne), Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA), European Research Council (ERC), Scientific Department, Brussels, EGU
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2023
• Subjects: [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences; Iceland
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-04282803; https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-7603

International audience The European Geoscience Union is the largest geoscience society of Europe, representing ~18000 geoscience members from across the world. The EGU engages and serves its community by providing opportunities for members to network, present their research results and exchange ideas at EGU organised conferences, workshops and in their diverse scientific journals. The EGU has also established an EDI Committee to assess the current representation of European countries within the EGU structure and initiatives that reflect and impact the geoscience community. In this context we have conducted a detailed analysis on the geographical representation of European researchers (defined by their country of affiliation) being a member in editorial boards of EGU journals.Our survey of all 19 EGU journals in 2022, revealed that out of 1176 editors currently 792 editors have an affiliation at a European country, accounting for 67%; scientists with a host institution based in North America were also highly represented (~20%). Most of the editors based in Europe are affiliated to institutions in Germany, UK, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Italy. Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, and Finland) as well as countries in Southern Europe (Spain, Portugal, and Greece) have a lower representation, with less than 5% of the total number of editors based in each of these European countries.21 European countries did not have a representative on any of the 19 EGU journal editorial boards. Countries that were not represented include Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, and Slovakia. Other countries with very limited representation included Poland, Czech Republic (3 editors), Slovenia (2 editors) and Croatia and Ukraine with one editor each. Apart from Iceland and Ireland all these severely underrepresented countries are geographically ...