Heather van Epps
Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet Rheumatology, The Lancet GroupUnited Kingdom
Session 8 – Post-acceptance manuscript editing
Session 8.2
Sunday, 26 June from 11.15am-12.30pm (Valencia time)
Introducing the SAGER Checklist
The Sex and Equity in Research (SAGER) guidelines, published in 2016, were widely endorsed by scientific organisations, funders, and publishers, but few journals incorporated these guidelines into formal editorial policies.
The Lancet journals have gradually developed in-house guidance for how best to report sex and gender; in 2021, the editorial teams of three Lancet journals (The Lancet Psychiatry, The Lancet Rheumatology, and The Lancet Haematology) launched a pilot programme in which the Editors committed to increased vigilance around the reporting of demographic data by sex/gender and ethnicity in all published articles. As part of the pilot, Editors monitored compliance with the SAGER guidelines for all primary research articles and encouraged authors to report outcomes and adverse events data disaggregated by sex/gender.
To facilitate monitoring of adherence to the SAGER guidelines in Lancet journals, we developed a checklist to enable faster editorial checks, promote update of the guidelines by other Editors and journals, and raise awareness among authors. In this session we will present the details of the SAGER checklist and the initial results of the pilot programme from The Lancet Rheumatology.
Appropriate for manuscript editors, journal editors, publishers.
