Nowhere is this more true than in collaborations involving the global north and south. Nature Index 2023 North–south collaborationData from 82 natural-science journals tracked by Nature Index suggest that in this selective set of publications, global north–south research parity is still a distant goal. The ratio of north–south authorship in these articles was also heavily weighted to the global north by almost 3 to 1. The ‘global north’ and ‘global south’ are categories without definitive boundaries, so World Bank income groups were used to split countries. Even so, the data are a stark warning that global north–south research equity still has a gulf to cross.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 13, 2023 15:10 UTC