Knowledge gap in biomedical sciences

SciDev.Net reports a growing gap in the number of scientific publications produced by less-developed and more-developed countries. This might imply a gap in the amount of research actually being done. This is the result of a survey done by the WHO and published in Science. The SciDev.Net article will lead you to the full study in Science. On a related issue, a recent letter in the Bulletin of the WHO discusses the effect of a Nepalese journal being chosen for indexing in Medline on the publication of research from Nepal.