Authors' institutional affiliations in Australian intellectual and developmental disabilities journals: a comparison of two decades.

Lim et al. (2003) counted who wrote every article in two Australian journals on intellectual disability during the 1990s.

They looked at each author’s job address and wrote down if it was a university, hospital, or service agency.

Almost every paper came from a university. Most were Australian or U.S. schools.

Non-university programs, like clinics or support services, rarely showed up.

Logan et al. (2000) saw the same thing in a world-wide scan of the field. They also found the big-name writers were almost all men with campus jobs.

Curiel et al. (2023) repeated the count for behavior-analysis journals and again saw North-American universities on nearly every page.

Matson et al. (2009) later widened the lens to thirty years and added a twist: genetics papers now lead the field, not behavior studies.

If you work in a school, clinic, or group home, your day-to-day data is missing from the journals. Team up with a university partner or write up your own cases so front-line voices balance the literature.