Some Social Implications Drawn from Recent Publications in the BJSTR, by Researchers' Origin Countries

In this short-communication, I briefly summarize the subject-selection pattern of researches published on the BJSTR since the late 2016. While most publishing researchers came from Middle-East, Africa, East Asia and Eastern Europe, they tended to focus on a specific theme or phenomenon, by region. First, recent African publishers tended to focus on breast-disease; however, based on other literature on other regions, this does not seem to be product of African region’s special feature, nor genetic idiosyncrasy of African women — their genetic diversity is even wider than any other part of the world. In the case of China, its researchers tended to focus on plant substances and brain symptoms, due to its emphasis on traditional medicine and recent growing concerns on elderly’s mental health. Meanwhile, Korean researchers tended to prioritize on overcoming chronic diseases, with more emphasis on the early diagnosis over late treatment and focus on transformation of human-body organs. With those examples, it is shown how different societies tend to form researchers’ collective interests.


Introduction
When looking at since-2016 articles published in the BJSTR, there seem relatively few studies from Western Europe, North America and Australia; it might sound not very good not to have those seemingly leading countries in biology and medicine, not every aspect is negative -with more concentration of researches from the third world, it could provide alternative viewpoints as

Breast-Cancer Problem in Sub-Saharian Africa
On the publications for BJSTR, most researches from Subsaharian African tended to focus on breast cancer of women [1][2][3][4][5] , only except two Nigerian studies about food-safety system [6,7]. This is not of a mere coincidence, according to Kantelhardt & Frie [8]'s analyses in recent emergence of breast-cancer in Sub-Saharian Africa. Based on meta-analyses for literature until 2016, they reveal the followings. 1) Citing the GLOBOCAN database [8], they found that annually almost 100,000 cases of breast cancer break out in this region; meanwhile, they also indicated that its curing depends on early diagnosis, far more than in most other regions and usual cases.
2) However,, citing report of Lancet Global Health [8], they found no significant effect of social backgrounds(e.g. race), on the occurrence of breast cancer.
3) According to the same article, neither the genetic idiosyncrasy of the African race is the key factor; its impact on the stage-progress has been argued by some, but none of them was proved. Rather, more evidences support the role of increasing life expectancy and rapid urbanization in this region -actually, the cancer is the disease more spread in advanced countries [9].

4) Taken all together, the key explanation for Sub-Saharan
Africa's breast-cancer comes from recent and relatively-late substantial development of this region's societies, rather than Africa's own genetic features or social-norm constraints [2].
On the other hand, in a more recent report published by 2017, Vanderpuye et al. [10] reveal severely lower survival rate of breastcancer in Sub-Sahararan countries, compared to North-Africa.
This feature could imply that the more fragmented and sparse population-structure in Sub-Saharan countries could be a major barrier to nationwide countermeasure against the soaring breastcancer rate. Here, it should be noted that North African countries are not characterized by the extreme diversities in terms of language and race, alike others as Nigeria or Tanzania. Furthermore, (Table   1) confirms that North African countries are more centralized in population distribution -, which means that investing caring center only on the largest city or capital city can help a lot in those countries, while in Sub-Saharan countries the same policy serves to only a fraction of population. For example, Algeria is economically less developed than South Africa , but enjoys higher rate of breastcancer survival. This example shows that Sub-Saharan Africa would have more difficulty in dealing with nationally-spreading breastcancer problem mainly due to social fractionalization, rather than mere underdevelopment of economy and infrastructure.

Korea: Diagnosis Rather Than Treatment
Besides, Korean researchers since 2017 have focused on the improvement of diagnosis methodology as well as transformation of bodily organs rather than dealing with them as they are [24][25][26]; and another focus in their researchers have been the reproduction of human organs [26][27][28].

The Rest
When it comes to Japanese researches' recent publications in the BJSTR, they tended to address local situations of health-care system and social programs dealing with it [30][31][32]