Do you mean you are writing about how the scientific community controls what does and doesn't get published, e.g. how literature is filtered by our unseen "review panels" etc?
And thus that the culture and personalities of those on review panels controls what information is made generally available and therefore colours what schools teach and journalists report, etc?
We were not quite clear what you mean so I wanted to clarify so we have more of an idea of what sort of area we are thinking about.
In terms of my prevous comment, I guess then we're asking: do you need a reference that says "culture makes a difference to your thinking" or one that says "US/UK scientific publishers have been shown to publish mostly articles by white american researchers" or similar. The former we can help with, the latter we may not be able to.
If the latter, could you do a simply study yourself - search pubmed or similar for random words and count the percentage of the top 50 results which are from outside the USA/UK? Or go through an issue of Nature and count, or something. Not aiming to produce world-changing results, just to illustrate your point.
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Date: 2009-08-10 03:02 pm (UTC)Do you mean you are writing about how the scientific community controls what does and doesn't get published, e.g. how literature is filtered by our unseen "review panels" etc?
And thus that the culture and personalities of those on review panels controls what information is made generally available and therefore colours what schools teach and journalists report, etc?
We were not quite clear what you mean so I wanted to clarify so we have more of an idea of what sort of area we are thinking about.
In terms of my prevous comment, I guess then we're asking: do you need a reference that says "culture makes a difference to your thinking" or one that says "US/UK scientific publishers have been shown to publish mostly articles by white american researchers" or similar. The former we can help with, the latter we may not be able to.
If the latter, could you do a simply study yourself - search pubmed or similar for random words and count the percentage of the top 50 results which are from outside the USA/UK? Or go through an issue of Nature and count, or something. Not aiming to produce world-changing results, just to illustrate your point.
Hope that makes sense.