SciDev.Net says although "the origin of scientists is changing" and "scientific research becomes more globalised and less dominated by Europe and North America", "the latest list of the world’s most highly cited researchers features few scientists based in developing countries — and none from Africa outside South Africa — exposing the North–South divide and raising questions on how the impact of science is measured."
"Thomson Reuters has issued its The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds: 2014 report based on analysis of recent citations of published papers across science."
"But only 86 out of the approximately 3,200 scientists on the list are affiliated with institutions in the developing world. And they are based in only 12 countries, with most in Saudi Arabia, Iran, India and Turkey, whose combined count is 63."
How do you explain this difference between the developing and developed world?
http://www.scidev.net/global/publishing/news/highly-influential-scientists-still-rare-in-the-developing-world.html
Dear Sayyed,
Highly influential is a rather relative expression which is influenced by certain marketing interests many of us do not know. I have no idea how and by whom Thomson Reuters has been acknowledged as a real oracle in this matter.
Yes my dear Seyyed, "Highly influential' scientists still rare in the developing world" In general, there are many reason for this rarity. The most important reason, I believe, is the lack of supporting funds to them and to their research in the developing countries.
Dear Sayyed,
Highly influential is a rather relative expression which is influenced by certain marketing interests many of us do not know. I have no idea how and by whom Thomson Reuters has been acknowledged as a real oracle in this matter.
Yes, I am sure there are many explanations for this, including a true rarity of researchers and the fact that it is awfully difficult to publish in "high impact factor" journals, because editors are simply "not interested" by public health research performed in developing countries...
Absolutely right, Indeed the developing world did not realize the importance of the higher education, let's take the case of Pakistan, recently more than 0.8 million highly literate people from Pakistan migrated to Canada, USA, Europe and UAE (Brain Drain) what else we expect.
I think that the picture would be very different, if we would include scientists from developing countries who migrated and worked in the so-called developed world. Of course it depends a bit on the discipline and I surely do not have a comprehensive overview, but people like Amartya Sen and Arjun Appadurai come to my mind without much reflection. The big issue, however, is why many scientists first need to leave their home countries before they become internationally influential.
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