Table 4.

Reasons underlying difficulties in publications in the opinion of corresponding authors.

Reason	n (% of respondents) N = 250
Biased attitude of reviewers and editors against authors from developing countries	162 (64.8)
Poor writing skills	132 (52.8)
Reviewers and Editors do not trust data generated in developing countries	100 (40.0)
Quality of research is not good in developing countries	78 (31.2)
Lack of funding and other resources	74 (29.6)
Unimpressive publication record of the authors	42 (16.8)
Lack of generalisibility of results	18 (7.2)
Total responses*	606

*The number of responses (606) exceeds the number of respondents (250) because the majority of respondents selected more than one reasons.

The corresponding authors who thought that publishing from their countries is difficult were asked to identify the reasons underlying the difficulties in publishing.