The recent manuscript “Ethics Requirement Score: new tool for evaluating ethics in publications” is very interesting.(1) Santos et al. reported that “although the Impact Factor of foreigner journals was considerably higher than that of the Brazilian publications, the results showed that the Impact Factor has no correlation with the proposed score”.(1) Indeed, the Impact Factor does not reflect ...

The targets and expressions of racism vary across Europe. This article discusses the relevance of different descriptions and analyses of racism despite the different terms used in different countries such as ‘ethnic minority’, ‘foreigner’ or ‘black’ and different interpretations of which differences matter. It shows the significance of a cross-national European perspective on racism. There are ...

An “ah ha” moment. For a foreigner attempting to participate in and understand the lives of people very different from herself, it was usually far easier to accomplish the former than the latter. And while anthropological training had prepared me to quickly recognize specific configurations of social relationships that differed from those to which I was accustomed, there were few moments in the...