Are scholarly articles disproportionately read in their own country? An analysis of mendeley readers

摘要: International collaboration tends to result in more highly cited research and, partly as a of this, many funding schemes are specifically international scope. Nevertheless, it is not clear whether this citation advantage the higher quality or due other factors, such larger audience for publications. To test apparent internationally collaborative may be additional interest articles from countries authors, article assesses extent which national affiliations authors affect their Mendeley readers. Based on English-language Web Science 10 fields science, medicine, social and humanities, results statistical models comparing author reader suggest that, most fields, users disproportionately readers authored within own country. In addition, there several cases certain tend ignore specific countries, although reflects biases different specialisms field. conclusion, funders should incentivize basis that is, general, because its impact primarily audience. Moreover, guard against reading select only best relevant publications inform research.