Open AccessWhy Aren’t There More Journal Papers by African Geoscientists?
Author(s) -
Andrew Wight
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2021eo154774
Subject(s) - dream , focus (optics) , library science , political science , history , media studies , sociology , computer science , psychology , physics , neuroscience , optics
Africa is a geoscientist’s dream. But new research shows that less than 4% of the world’s high-impact geoscience papers focus on Africa, and few of those have even one African author.