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• June 2020. Workshop leads to joint commitment, signed by an initial 12 publishers
• Feb 2021. Schema established for collection of gender data; work on developing schema for data collection methods for race and ethnicity is ongoing
• March 2021. Post-publication author name changes good practices devised, shared with Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and National Information Standards Organization (NISO). Members of 乐天堂app下载 joint commitment have since facilitated name changes for hundreds of authors
• May 2021. Workshop held to discuss making progress on tackling harmful historical content. Outputs shared with COPE working group
• May 2021. Facilitated collaborative conversations between Elsevier (owners of Editorial Manager) and ScholarOne about how to best incorporate diversity data collection into submission and peer review systems 
• June 2021. Number of publishers joined commitment reaches 40
• November 2021. Minimum standards on which to build launched
• January 2022. Number of publishers joined commitment reaches 50 
• April 2022. Standardised questions for self-reported diversity data collection launched
• July 2023. Steering committee launched

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Chair

Fiona Counsell, Head of Editorial Policy & Process, Taylor & Francis

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Co-chair

Joseph Krumpfer, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Polymer Science, Wiley

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Secretary

Sarah Whitehouse, Journals Manager, Peer Review and Ethics, Royal Society of Chemistry

Dr Sarah Whitehouse (she/her) is Journals Manager, Peer Review and Ethics at 乐天堂app下载 Royal Society of Chemistry, where she is responsible for journals peer review strategy, publishing ethics strategy, quality and impact, and inclusion & diversity in publishing. Sarah has worked in STM publishing since 2014 in a range of operational and strategic roles. She holds an MBiochem from University of Bath and a PhD from University of Bristol.

Committee members

Vikki Davies, Production Portfolio Manager, Frontiers

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Joanna Harries, Senior Publishing Editor, 乐天堂app下载 Royal Society

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Stephanie Hull, Content Acquisition Director, Emerald Publishing

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