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We explored the association between journal quality and DEI metrics for cardiothoracic surgery (CTS) journals and investigated whether editorial diversity correlates with diversity across published articles.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>We collected the following data for 30 CTS journals: country of publication (categorized by income level), journal quality metrics (citation\u2010based metrics, e.g., impact factor (IF) or H\u2010index), and sex and geographic representation across editorial boards and published articles. Bivariate correlations between numeric variables were assessed using Spearman's correlation.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Female representation across editorial boards was 12.1%. Most editorial board members belonged to the United States (35.2%), with only 7.4% from the lower\u2010middle\u2010income countries and 0% from low\u2010income countries. IF showed a strong positive correlation with female editorial representation (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a00.70) but an inverse correlation with low\u2010 and middle\u2010income countries (LMICs) editorial representation (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a0\u22120.45). Female editorial representation demonstrated a significant positive correlation with female first authorship (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a00.45), whereas LMIC editorial representation correlated strongly with LMIC corresponding authorship (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a00.85).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Women and researchers from LMICs are in the minority across editorial boards of CTS journals. However, a strong correlation between journal H\u2010index and female editorial representation indicates that top\u2010ranked journals are spearheading efforts to improve equitable sex\u2010based and gender representations. 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