As English is advancing to become the world’s academic lingua franca, English-language journals increasingly need to reflect knowledge production on a global scale. Our graphic shows how the majority of geography journals still remain strongly anchored in Anglophone countries. A few journals, however, lead the way in the decolonial imperative to decentre knowledge production.
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