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Global South scholars are missing from European and US journals. What can be done about it South-based scholars are often not part of major debates and conversations in their field. This points to a severe imbalance in the production of new knowledge. Studies have shown that scholars in the global South are under represented in top international peer-reviewed  social  and  medical sciences journals. The global South refers to African, Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern countries who are also members of the  Group of 77 . The intergovernmental organisation of mainly developing countries is used to identify countries in the South. The global North includes the  Group of 8  and the five permanent members of the  UN Security Council . Our own analysis  of gender and politics journals shows scholars in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East are missing from leading journals published in the US and Europe. We found that between 2008 and 2017 less than 3% of 947 fu