Gender inequality in directive bodies and scientific production on the Ibero-American psychology journals with greater international visibility

Abstract

This paper analyses the composition of the editorial teams of the Ibero-American psychology journals included in the Journal Citation Reports of 2015 (edited in 2016) and the production of articles and number of signatures in these journals in the JCR in 2014 and 2015 from a gender perspective. The results indicate a greater presence of men in editorial committees, with higher positions of responsibility and in higher quartile journals. In scientific production, there is an equality based on gender in the number of signatures and in the number of women and men as the first signatory, although women appear to a lesser extent as authors of the correspondence and present fewer signatures in journals located in the first quartiles. It can be concluded that there is a gender inequality with respect to the management positions of the journals but more equality in the production of papers.