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The editor's dilemma: assessing papers from low-income countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Peter Tyrer
Peter Tyrer*
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British Journal of Psychiatry; Department of Psychological Medicine, Imperial College (Charing Cross Campus), London W6 8RP, UK
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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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International Psychiatry , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , October 2008 , pp. 79 - 80
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