Reading internationally: if citing is a political practice, who are we reading and who are we citing?

Across multiple disciplines from communication science and political science to astronomy, research has pointed to gender citation bias, racialised citation bias and the regional tilt of many international journals towards authors based in a small set of countries, including the USA, the UK and Australia (e.g., Caplar, Tacchella, and Birrer 2017; Dion, Sumner, and Mitchell 2018; Trepte and Loths 2020). These citation patterns not only have an e ff ect on the quality of research publications and the breadth of perspectives and insights circulating as contributions to knowledge but also on the futures of individual scholars working in systems in which citation scores matter for careers. Citing is political. We recognize these biases in articles in Learning, Media and Technology , and encourage contributors to consider whether their manuscripts re fl ect the diversity of research perspectives in the fi eld or if their research and writing would bene fi t from incorporating a broader range of research. issue reading? Thanks to big data and data mining all this information can be obtained with full respect for individual rights. Could a group, in possession of this information, gain cognitive advan-tages in a scenario of competition for technological innovation? (Parra et al. 2018, 86; transl. DeepL)