[A short thread] I read this article over and over again. I am missing the point why @PhilipPurnell didn't cite local article that says exactly the same thing. This article talks specifically about a country/nation right. Shouldn't it covers what the locals have found? 1/n
I read that he only used Scopus as the source of references that only lists papers written in English. How can we get a specific situation of a country/nation only based on English-written literature. 2/n
As for the language barrier, most of Indonesian journals also request authors to post abstract in English. Also, Google Translate has been extensively developed. It provides a decent/basic translation of languages to English. Why not using those features? 3/n
There are many tools aside to only use Scopus for literature search. Here's some example of my search using a set Indonesian words translated from the keywords of Purnell's article: 4/n