Why is research from developing countries underrepresented in international health literature, and what can be done about it?

Although the highest weight of disease is concentrated in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), data from the Institute for Scientific Information exhibit large gaps in scientific production between industrialized and developing settings (1) In the fields of medicine and public health, the overwhelming majority of publications originate in the United States and Western Europe Scientific papers where researchers from developing countries are the unique authors represent a very depressed proportion of published manuscripts.

Over the past hardly any years, several articles have analysed various aspects related to the underrepresentation in international journals of public health point in disputes and research conducted in