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The editor’s dilemma: assessing papers from low-income countries
Most scientists are now aware of what has been called the 10:90 divide (Saxena et al, 2006): the fact that 90% of the published scientific activity in the world comes from the richest 10% of countries. Many would like to brush off this simple fact as unimportant, but at another level it could be reg...
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The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6734845/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31507954 |
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description | Most scientists are now aware of what has been called the 10:90 divide (Saxena et al, 2006): the fact that 90% of the published scientific activity in the world comes from the richest 10% of countries. Many would like to brush off this simple fact as unimportant, but at another level it could be regarded as a scandalous disequilibrium of the planet’s resources. One small way of reversing this is for editors to publish more papers from low-income countries and counter what can be described somewhat strongly as editorial racism (Horton, 2003). We have tried to do so in the British Journal of Psychiatry (Tyrer, 2005); this paper describes some of the difficulties. |
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spelling | pubmed-67348452019-09-10 The editor’s dilemma: assessing papers from low-income countries Tyrer, Peter Int Psychiatry Guest Editorial Most scientists are now aware of what has been called the 10:90 divide (Saxena et al, 2006): the fact that 90% of the published scientific activity in the world comes from the richest 10% of countries. Many would like to brush off this simple fact as unimportant, but at another level it could be regarded as a scandalous disequilibrium of the planet’s resources. One small way of reversing this is for editors to publish more papers from low-income countries and counter what can be described somewhat strongly as editorial racism (Horton, 2003). We have tried to do so in the British Journal of Psychiatry (Tyrer, 2005); this paper describes some of the difficulties. The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2008-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6734845/ /pubmed/31507954 Text en © 2008 The Royal College of Psychiatrists http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Guest Editorial Tyrer, Peter The editor’s dilemma: assessing papers from low-income countries |
title | The editor’s dilemma: assessing papers from low-income countries |
title_full | The editor’s dilemma: assessing papers from low-income countries |
title_fullStr | The editor’s dilemma: assessing papers from low-income countries |
title_full_unstemmed | The editor’s dilemma: assessing papers from low-income countries |
title_short | The editor’s dilemma: assessing papers from low-income countries |
title_sort | editor’s dilemma: assessing papers from low-income countries |
topic | Guest Editorial |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6734845/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31507954 |
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