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Global representation in psychiatric research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Michael Zhang ,
Dawson W. Hedges  and
Bruce L. Brown
Michael Zhang
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA, email michael_zhang@byu.edu
Dawson W. Hedges
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, and Neuroscience Center, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA
Bruce L. Brown
Affiliation:
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA
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Abstract

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To monitor global representation in the psychiatric literature, we compared publication rates in the ten psychiatric journals with the highest impact factors in 1998 and 2008 by world regions. In both 1998 and 2008, North America, Northern Europe, Western Europe and Oceania produced the majority of psychiatric research papers published in these journals, despite representing only a small fraction of the world's population. This suggests that much of the world's population continues to be underrepresented in highly influential psychiatric journals.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , November 2012 , pp. 94 - 96
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 2012

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