TY - JOUR T1 - 'Is there racism in academic medical publishing?’ JF - BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine JO - BMJ EBM DO - 10.1136/bmjebm-2020-111487 SP - bmjebm-2020-111487 AU - Madunil Anuk Niriella AU - Arjuna Priyadarshin De Silva AU - Hithanadura Janaka de Silva AU - Saroj Jayasinghe Y1 - 2020/07/28 UR - http://ebm.bmj.com/content/early/2020/07/27/bmjebm-2020-111487.abstract N2 - We read with great interest the BMJ issue devoted to issues confronting doctors and patients from ethnic minority backgrounds.1 ,2 We applaud the Journal for its courage in tackling such a sensitive issue.We the undersigned, academic clinicians from a lower middle-income country (LMIC), Sri Lanka, would like to highlight another aspect of the problem—that is, discrimination in academic medical publishing that borders on racism.Academia and the scientific community are not immune to discrimination, however subtle, and the academic publication process is an area which deserves to be examined. It is widely acknowledged in our circles that academic manuscripts originating from institutions in non-Western, emerging economies, such as, for example, those of South Asia or Africa, are … ER -