Out of Africa: The underrepresentation of African authors in high-impact geoscience literature

2020/06/26 by Michelle A. North, Warwick W. Hastie, L. Hoyer +1 · 1 voice · 4 citations
Decision Sciences · Medicine · #Data-Driven Disease Surveillance #scientometrics and bibliometrics research

paper · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103262

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Discussions

• 📚 Out of half a million natural-science articles, only 24 were written solely by researchers from low-income countries.https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-04022-1 🌍 Over 70% of published geoscience [bsky, 1 points, 1 comments]