“…The final review corpus of 16 includes 10 papers published in the fields of librarianship and scholarly publishing, as well as 2 from Medicine, 3 from the social sciences, and 1 in the field of research policy. Seven focus on specific national contexts that are on the peripheries of the global science system, including Nigeria (Omobowale et al ., 2014), Colombia (Chavarro et al ., 2017), Ghana (Atiso, Kammer, & Bossaller, 2019), India (Seethapathy, Santhosh Kumar, & Hareesha, 2016), Egypt and Saudi Arabia (Shehata & Elgllab, 2018), Turkey (Demir, 2018), and Iran (Ebadi & Zamani, 2018). Eight carried out international online surveys, with a significant number of responses from scholars based in the global South (and especially India) as well as from the USA.…”