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ArticlemBio2025

Common challenges faced by early-career researchers in Latin American and small U.S. universities.

Daniela Cejas, Fatima Rodriguez Acosta, Juan Rivera-Correa

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Article in mBio, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Daniela CejasUniversidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Buenos Aires, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0001-7418-3573
Fatima Rodriguez AcostaDepartamento de Microbiología, Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, San Lorenzo, Paraguay.ORCID 0000-0002-4754-5038
Juan Rivera-CorreaBiological Sciences Department, New York City College of Technology, City University of New York, New York, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4822-0005

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early-career researchers from Spanish-speaking Latin American countries and small U.S. universities are underrepresented in international scientific databases. They have geographical importance, infectious disease endemicity, and exceptional researchers in microbiology, but these factors do not translate to representation in high-impact scientific publications. Many reasons could be involved, including financial burdens such as the inability to pay article processing charges. Additional teaching, institutional, and service responsibilities also highly influence their research productivity. Despite this, they are expected to publish high-impact articles, and their career development highly depends on it. There is an opportunity for global peer collaboration to tackle this inequity and uplift underrepresented scientists, which will ultimately provide benefits and sustainability to the global microbial sciences.

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Biomedical ResearchResearch PersonnelHumansLatin AmericaUnited StatesUniversitiesearly-career researchersLatin Americasmall U.S. universities

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PMID40358143
PMCPMC12153304

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