Why coverage matters: Invisibility of agricultural research from the Global South may be an obstacle to development

Abstract

To support development and sustainability in the Global South, contextual and locally appropriate knowledge on agriculture needs to be visible and accessible. Improving journal coverage in global open scholarly infrastructures can play a crucial role in increasing visibility. We have conducted a small study using the MIAR portal of the ‘Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals’ of the University of Barcelona in order to make a rough estimate of the journal coverage of various bibliographic databases.