General overview

This repository contains all data, scripts and functions used to generate the Figure 1 of the paper “Three pathways to better recognize the expertise of Global South researchers” accepted for publication in npj Biodiversity journal.

In this study we brought secondary data from literature that evidence colonial imprints in academic expertise, and propose three pathways to reduce these biases.

Repository structure

Folders

• data: contains all data needed to perform the analysis.

  • raw contains all .txt files downloaded from Web of Science containing all records from 1000 top single author papers from different regions (defined accordingly World Bank - East Asia, Latin America, Middle and East Africa, South Asia, Sub-Sahara and USA-Canada)
  • processed contains all .txt in raw after being processed using Bibliometrix package. Subfolders *_citing_articles contains information on articles that cited the top 1000 papers in raw for each region.

• doc: .doc documents containing the manuscript

• output: contains all results, including the figures presented in the main text of this study. res_boot_*.rds are files containing results from rarefaction analysis described in 02_D_rarefaction_citation.Rmd. Figure 1 and its components were generated using file 03_S_figure1-main-text.Rmd

• R: contains all Rmardown files with all analyctical procedures to run the analysis using literature data present in this study. 01_C_getting_processing.Rmd contains all the querries used in Web of Science and the processing workflow used to extract the information needed in downstream analysis using Bibliometrix package. 02_D_GeoMarkers.Rmd and 02_D_rarefaction_citation.Rmd contains, respectively the scripts to get the number of geographical markers and rarefied citation values for each country in each World Bank region used in this study. 03_S_figure1-main-text.Rmd is used to produce the Figure in the article.

Downloading the repository

The user can download this repo to a local folder in your computer or clone it:

downloading all files

download.file(url = "https://github.com/GabrielNakamura/Decolonizing_expertise/archive/main.zip", destfile = "Decolonizing_expertise.zip")

to unzip the .zip file in your computer type

unzip(zipfile = "Decolonizing_expertise.zip")

Authors

Gabriel Nakamura, Bruno Eleres Soares, Valério D. Pillar, José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho and Leandro Duarte