"Sharing experiences of scientific apartheid"

https://nrisp.ac.ir/scientific-discrimination/

Scientific discrimination refers to any form of structural and systemic inequality in the processes of knowledge production, dissemination, access, and utilization, which leads to privileging certain researchers, institutions, or scientific communities while marginalizing others. Key examples of scientific discrimination include:

Rejection of manuscripts due to the author’s institutional affiliation with an Iranian organization;

Rejection of manuscripts on the basis of sanctions imposed on the author’s institution or university;

Rejection of manuscripts because of the sponsor’s name or logo;

Rejection of manuscripts due to the inclusion of the word “Iran” or the names of Iranian universities;

National financial sanctions preventing the payment of publication fees or access to scholarly resources;

Denial of research fellowship opportunities;

Refusal to admit students on non-academic grounds;

Withdrawal from international academic collaborations;

Other similar cases as experienced in researchers’ lived realities.

We hereby invite you to share your personal experiences of scientific discrimination with us. These contributions will serve as essential documentation and evidence for pursuing the matter before international bodies. Please be assured that all information and accounts you provide will be treated with the utmost confidentiality.

https://nrisp.ac.ir/scientific-discrimination/