These guidelines serve as a roadmap for quantitative intersectional analysis throughout the research process—from setting strategic research priorities and shaping research questions to data collection, analysis, and interpretation. Here we provide a checklist to facilitate author and journal editor compliance with the guidelines. We recommend that the GIST checklist be added to journals’ “Information for Authors”. The goal is to reset the research default to include intersectional analysis, where appropriate. Intersectional analysis leads to better science: precision in research best guides effective social and environmental policies that, in turn, enhance global equity and sustainability.
Authors Londa Schiebinger, Mathias Wullum Nielsen, Elena Gissi, Shirin Heidari, Richard Horton, Kari C. Nadeau, Dorothy Ngila, Safiya Umoja Noble, Hee Young Paik, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Eddy Y. Zeng, James Zou and Joan Marsh produced a follow up article, Guidelines for Intersectional Analysis in Science and Technology: Implementation and Checklist Development in which they provide a checklist to facilitate author and journal editor compliance with the guidelines.
These guidelines are now published in the EQUATOR Network (https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/guidelines-for-intersectional-analysis-in-science-and-technology/). The EQUATOR Network is an international initiative that promotes high-quality, transparent, and accurate reporting of health research by developing, disseminating, and implementing reporting guidelines. It provides a central resource for authors, journal editors, peer reviewers, and other collaborators, offering a comprehensive collection of reporting guidelines, toolkits, and educational materials to improve the reliability and value of research studies.
The GIST guidelines and checklist were presented by Londa Schiebinger at the 18th EASE Conference in May, 2025 in a session titled ‘How can you contribute to your journal’s sustainability‘ and by Mathias Wullum Nielsen in the EASE Webinar: Good reporting practice in October 2025.