Arafat S M Yasir, Lester David
Department of Psychiatry Bangladesh Specialized Hospital Dhaka Bangladesh.
Stockton University Galloway New Jersey USA.
Health Sci Rep. 2025 Jun 18;8(6):e70926. doi: 10.1002/hsr2.70926. eCollection 2025 Jun.
Suicide is a global challenge. About three-quarters of suicides happen in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). There are disparities in research and publication opportunities between countries based on income category. We aimed to discuss the disparities in research and publication on suicide between high-income countries and LMICs.
We made a search in Scopus with the term "suicide" in early February 2025 and noted the number of publications and publishing journals.
Along with suicidology journals, mental health journals are publishing research on suicide. There are no open access journals indexed in PubMed, Scopus, and PsycINFO which have no concerns about limited space. The leading three journals with good indexing follow a subscription/hybrid model with limited space that has results in the exclusion of papers of authors from LMICs.
Immediate attention is warranted to ensure that research on suicidal behavior from LMICs be solicited and published in journals currently available in the major indexing services. An open access journal focused on suicidal behavior without page limitations and with minimal or zero cost would be very useful.
自杀是一项全球性挑战。约四分之三的自杀事件发生在低收入和中等收入国家（LMICs）。基于收入类别，各国在研究和发表机会方面存在差异。我们旨在探讨高收入国家与低收入和中等收入国家在自杀研究与发表方面的差异。
2025年2月初，我们在Scopus中以“自杀”为关键词进行搜索，并记录出版物数量和出版期刊。
除自杀学期刊外，心理健康期刊也在发表有关自杀的研究。在PubMed、Scopus和PsycINFO中索引的开放获取期刊中，不存在篇幅有限的问题。排名前三的索引良好的期刊采用订阅/混合模式，篇幅有限，这导致来自低收入和中等收入国家的作者的论文被排除在外。
有必要立即予以关注，以确保征集来自低收入和中等收入国家的自杀行为研究，并在主要索引服务中当前可用的期刊上发表。一本专注于自杀行为、无篇幅限制且成本极低或为零的开放获取期刊将非常有用。
