Journal Editorial Boards: Is There Space for Geographic Diversity?

Bárbara Rivera López discusses the need for greater geographic diversity in academic publishing on the OA Week blog: "Evidence shows a lack of geographical diversity in ‘international’ databases, published papers and references in a myriad of disciplines (Rivera-Lopez, 2017; Tennant et al., 2019). Unfortunately, this is also the case with journal’s Editorial Boards, which play a critical role in defining the trajectory and boundaries of knowledge in each field of study (Espin et al., 2017)."