Language, economic and gender disparities widen the scientific productivity gap

• Tatsuya Amano ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: t.amano@uq.edu.au

  Affiliations School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6576-3410

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• Valeria Ramírez-Castañeda,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Violeta Berdejo-Espinola,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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• Israel Borokini,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology, Montana State University—Bozeman, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

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• Shawan Chowdhury,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Marina Golivets,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, Halle, Germany

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• Juan David González-Trujillo,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá, Colombia

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• Flavia Montaño-Centellas,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia, Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Kumar Paudel,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Greenhood Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Rachel L. White,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Applied Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom

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• Diogo Veríssimo

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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