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Insufficient yet improving involvement of the global south in top sustainability science publications

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dc.contributor.author Dangles, O.
dc.contributor.author Struelens, Q.
dc.contributor.author Ba, M.-P.
dc.contributor.author Bonzi-Coulibaly, Y.
dc.contributor.author Charvis, P.
dc.contributor.author Emmanuel, E.
dc.contributor.author Almario, C.G.
dc.contributor.author Hanich, L.
dc.contributor.author Koita, O.
dc.contributor.author León-Velarde, Fabiola
dc.contributor.author Mburu, Y.K.
dc.contributor.author Ntoumi, F.
dc.contributor.author Restrepo, S.
dc.contributor.author Vidal, L.
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-12T18:25:58Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-12T18:25:58Z
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/12380
dc.description.abstract The creation of global research partnerships is critical to produce shared knowledge for the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Sustainability science promotes the coproduction of inter- and transdisciplinary knowledge, with the expectation that studies will be carried out through groups and truly collaborative networks. As a consequence, sustainability research, in particular that published in high impact journals, should lead the way in terms of ethical partnership in scientific collaboration. Here, we examined this issue through a quantitative analysis of the articles published in Nature Sustainability (300 papers by 2135 authors) and Nature (2994 papers by 46, 817 authors) from January 2018 to February 2021. Focusing on these journals allowed us to test whether research published under the banner of sustainability science favoured a more equitable involvement of authors from countries belonging to different income categories, by using the journal Nature as a control. While the findings provide evidence of still insufficient involvement of Low-and-Low-Middle-Income-Countries (LLMICs) in Nature Sustainability publications, they also point to promising improvements in the involvement of such authors. Proportionally, there were 4.6 times more authors from LLMICs in Nature Sustainability than in Nature articles, and 68.8-100% of local Global South studies were conducted with host country scientists (reflecting the discouragement of parachute research practices), with local scientists participating in key research steps. We therefore provide evidence of the promising, yet still insufficient, involvement of low-income countries in top sustainability science publications and discuss ongoing initiatives to improve this. en_US
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Public Library of Science
dc.relation.ispartofseries PLoS ONE
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject Sustainability science en_US
dc.subject Research ethics en_US
dc.subject Scientists en_US
dc.subject Publication ethics en_US
dc.subject Low and middle income countries en_US
dc.subject Low income countries en_US
dc.subject Science policy en_US
dc.subject Senegal en_US
dc.title Insufficient yet improving involvement of the global south in top sustainability science publications en_US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273083
dc.relation.issn 1932-6203


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