Geographic affiliation of authors and cooperative research in the Mexican, European, and Brazilian journal of behavior analysis

ABSTRACT

Publication trends in prominent behavior-analytic journals developed in the United States of America have shown that most of its research has been produced by authors with North American affiliations. The geographic affiliation of authors who have contributed research to the Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis (MJBA), European Journal of Behavior Analysis (EJBA), and Brazilian Journal of Behavior Analysis (BJBA) – all of which are housed outside of the United States of America – are currently unknown. We examined articles published in these journals from their inception through 2020 to determine the geographic locations of authors’ listed affiliations. We found that 70% and 90% of publications in the MJBA and BJBA, respectively, were from researchers with Latin American affiliations. The EJBA had 58% and 42% of publications from researchers with North American and European affiliations, respectively. The articles were also analyzed to determine if they were co-authored by researchers from different geographic regions. The data show that 11, 6, and 3% of articles published in EJBA, MJBA, and BJBA, respectively, were cooperative.

KEYWORDS:

• Archival data
• authorship trends
• cooperative research
• geographic affiliation
• publication trends

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1. The raw data – journal entries – for the present study are a subset of data from a larger database that include data that have been published. The variable of interest (i.e., geographical affiliation) has not been previously analyzed or published.