A recent wave of studies has focused on the identities of communication scholars, quantifying the degree to which Whites, men, and Americans dominate the discipline.This study analyzes the communication citation elite (CCE)—a group of 1,675 highly cited scholars in communication research—in terms of race, gender, and country of employment over 20 years. Applying computational methods and content analysis, we find that 91.5% of first-author CCE members are White, 74.3% are men, and 78.6% work in the United States. Longitudinal analyses of each identity category reveal only minor shifts, most prominently slight gains for women and non-U.S. scholars. White representation among first authors decreased less than 4 percentage points over the study period (from 95.1% to 91.2%), with Black representation ending lower than it began (0.61% to 0.54%). Data from the International Communication Association indicate that the CCE is substantially more American and male than the organization’s full membership as of 2021.

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2000-2019 年通信引文精英中种族、地点和性别的不平等

最近的一波研究关注传播学者的身份，量化白人、男性和美国人主导该学科的程度。这项研究分析了传播引文精英 (CCE)——一群 1,675 名传播研究领域被高度引用的学者——在 20 年以上的种族、性别和就业国家方面。应用计算方法和内容分析，我们发现 91.5% 的第一作者 CCE 成员是白人，74.3% 是男性，78.6% 在美国工作。对每个身份类别的纵向分析仅显示出微小的变化，最显着的是女性和非美国学者的轻微增长。第一作者中的白人代表在研究期间下降了不到 4 个百分点（从 95.1% 到 91.2%），黑人代表比开始时低（0.61% 到 0.54%）。