On the impact of geo-contextualized and local research in the global North and South

Building on the preliminary findings presented here, this work will be developed further by including additional cleaning of location names to improve country assignation. Further analysis of the results by specific country, discipline, and evolution over time, will allow a deeper understanding of the extent to which researchers around the globe engage in local research and geo-contextualize their work in their titles and abstracts. For now, our study found that a small portion of research can be identified as geo-contextualized or local and that, in most fields, publications from the global South make up the larger share of the geo-contextualized work, which also comes with a citation disadvantage. Our results will hopefully contribute to discussions about the growing importance given to local research by funders and other research governance entities and the challenges that this may bring to researchers who must adapt to such a local context while competing in a global research system.