A New Critical Lens to Examine Factors Influencing Differences in Global Scholarly Communication Experiences
If scholars’ research outputs are high quality and add to knowledge in a field of scientific study, why should their geographical location or any aspect of their identity matter? Evidence demonstrates that cognitive and ideological differences are beneficial to research. Unfortunately, experience and the literature show differences between scholars’ geographical locations or their identities and their ability to obtain, produce, and distribute research outputs. The disparities can be described by focusing on geopolitical positions, such as low- and middle-income countries compared to high-income countries, or differences can be examined through a racial or ethnic lens, or any number of ways we identify individuals or groups of people.
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