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Publication bias towards Western populations harms humanity

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Priti Mulimani, a health-care professional and PhD student, highlights how pressure to publish in high-impact journals that are biased towards research on Western populations obstructs pivotal research on the majority of the world’s population.

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  1. Senior Fellow Trainee and Doctoral student, School of Dentistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

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Mulimani, P. Publication bias towards Western populations harms humanity. Nat Hum Behav 3, 1026–1027 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0720-5

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