title: Why are journals from less-developed countries constrained to low impact factors?
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University & VIB Inflammation Research Center, Ghent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Amin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bredan
authors.affiliation: Neurology Department, New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, UK.
authors.forename: Hani T S
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Benamer
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, UAE University, UAE; Department of Nephrology, Lund University, Sweden.
authors.forename: Omran
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Bakoush
mesh_terms: D003906:Developing Countries; D006801:Humans; D055811:Journal Impact Factor; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012106:Research / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*