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  1. Jeffrey W. Lockhart

    1. Jeffrey W. Lockhart is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago in Illinois.

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    1. Molly M. King is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Santa Clara University in California.

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    1. Christin L. Munsch is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Connecticut in Storrs.

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Studies of diversity in academic publishing arrive regularly in the scientific literature. But where do the data come from?

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02225-0

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