Science journals and global outreach initiatives in developing countries

National representation in the anaesthesia literature: a bibliometric analysis of highly cited anaesthesia journals*

“…Special issues of international journals with a developing world focus may also increase the number of publications from lowincome countries. However, the 2007 Council of Science Editors Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development, which included two of the anaesthesia journals that met our inclusion criteria [21,22], was included in our sample and the number of publications by low-income countries was still poor.…”

“…We also calculated the proportion of articles of each type from countries of each national income category. We analysed 9684 articles published in 2007 and …”