Latin American science funding crisis fuels brain drain

Low salaries, excessive bureaucracy and poorly defined research policies add to region’s woes

Published on
June 29, 2017
Last updated
June 29, 2017
Holly Else
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Clear-cut: many Latin American countries spend less than 1 per cent of gross domestic product on research; the average is 2.4 per cent among more developed nations
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Print headline: Lack of funds fuels science crisis in Latin America

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#1 Submitted by hollyS on June 30, 2017 - 11:56am
The statement 'Many researchers in the region are forced to publish their discoveries in journals that do not charge for publication, which typically have lower impact factors' is not accurate. The converse is actually more true - most journals do not charge for publication and very few journals that charge for publication have a high impact factor.

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