Phys.org  June 1, 2022 Citations and text analysis are both used to study the distribution and flow of ideas between researchers, fields, and countries, but the resulting flows are rarely equal. A team of researchers in the US (City University of New York, UCLA, Stanford University) argues that the differences in these two flows capture a growing global inequality in the production of scientific knowledge. They offered a framework called ‘citational lensing’ to identify where citations should appear between countries but are absent given that what is embedded in their published abstract texts is highly similar. This framework also identifies […]