Source: https://www.cgiar.org/news-events/news/walk-the-talk-supporting-science-in-the-global-south/

Global science on the impact of climate change and its relationship with human mobility and fragility is growing in scope and quality. However, its focus, leadership and outputs are limited to specific regions and institutions, reflecting a global imbalance in development studies. Institutions and scientists in high-income countries, notably in Europe and northern America, receive significantly more support. They work in enabling research environments and, consequently, publish more peer-reviewed research. Measured by peer-reviewed publications, researchers from other regions are severely underrepresented: a recent study shows that only 16 per cent of articles published in the top 20 development journals between 1990 and 2019 were authored by researchers from low and middle income countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Similarly, only 9 per cent of presenters at seven major development conferences from 2010-2019 were based at Southern universities.