Recently, I came up with an article showing the geographical locations of Editors in international scientific journals in environmental biology. It is well represented in the attached image.
Now the question is: Don't we have talented Editors distributed globally? Is this the scenario in all disciplines?
What is the case in your field?
Please share the scenario in your discipline.
Thanks to the authors for this interesting research.. "A persistent lack of international representation on editorial boards in environmental biology" https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2002760
Statistics looks fine, but do not miss that selected persons in many cases refuse to act as editors.
This distribution seems to be true in most the scientific disciplines. One may go for searching the factors behind it. Thank you very much for sharing this interesting information.
Thank you guys for your opinion. Many high impact journals have dedicated Editors employed solely for the editorial purpose not in conjunction of their other academic and/or research activities. We need to understand the underlying mechanism behind this, and then make long time plans to make high impact journals elsewhere (distributed all over the globe).
But the 1st question is, what is this mechanism? Why we have most high impact journals concentrated in some geographical locations only? Why other people can't do the same, so far ??
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