The growing submission rate of manuscripts from countries with emerging economies.

摘要

Over the past decade, an increasing submission rate from countries with emerging economies has been appearing in journal review portfolios. It was once an almost insurmountable barrier, not only from the point of view of the mastery of the customary scientific English language, but also the lack of adequate research training and an essential infrastructure to pursue contemporary research questions to foster an environment for highly competitive publications. However, it has become apparent that publishable and high-impact research no longer is an exclusivity of those economies that had the luxury to nurture such a culture, historically supported by significant public investments.Competition has become a global matter. The standards by which universities are compared around the globe are based upon very similar principles and rules. As the corporate world's rating of its "Fortune 500," the "Top 500 Universities" ranking has become the yardstick to assess the competitive power to which bright young brains are exposed.