Ethnicity Reporting Practices for Empirical Research in Three Autism-Related Journals
Abstract
This review examines ethnicity reporting in three autism-related journals (Autism, Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, and Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders) over a 6-year period. A comprehensive multistep search of articles is used to identify ethnicity as a demographic variable in these three journals. Articles that identified research participants' ethnicity were further analyzed to determine the impact of ethnicity as a demographic variable on findings of each study. The results indicate that ethnicity has not been adequately reported in these three autism related journals even though previous recommendations have been made to improve inadequacies of descriptive information of research participants in autism research (Kistner and Robbins in J Autism Dev Disord 16:77-82, 1986). Implications for the field of autism spectrum disorders are discussed in addition to further recommendations for future research.
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Autism research participants have historically been predominantly white male samples.
“Autism research participants have historically been predominantly white male samples (Pierce et al., 2014; West et al., 2016).”
From Neurodiversity and Autism Intervention: Reconciling Perspectives Through a Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Intervention Framework (2022) · cites this paper as Pierce et al., 2014
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- Authors
- Pierce, N. P., O’Reilly, M. F., Sorrells, A. M., Fragale, C. L., White, P. J., Aguilar, J. M., & Cole, H. A.
- Affiliations
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- Corresponding author
- Pierce, Nigel P.
- Venue
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
- Published
- 2014-02-04
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 1507-1519
- ISSN
- 0162-3257 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-3432
- OpenAlex
- W1964644337
- Cited by
- 95
- References
- 8
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 2.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Psychology Research and Bibliometrics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Keywords
- autism research, demographic reporting, research participant diversity, autism spectrum disorder, journal article analysis, underrepresentation in research
- MeSH terms
- Autistic Disorder, Child, Ethnicity, Female, Humans, Male, Research Design, Empirical Research
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