In this article, I present the results of an analysis of the geopolitical diversity of 61,781 papers that have been published in 17 leading international journals in development studies, and the results of another analysis in which I analysed the career trajectories of 260 faculty members working at 10 highly valued development studies departments. Regarding geopolitical diversity, I found a systemic inequality in terms of both research output and education trajectories. I argue that these imbalances contradict the expressed goals and values of development studies as a discipline that aims to reduce geopolitical inequalities. Policy implications are also discussed, in which I propose to reconsider academic recruitment standards and to raise the visibility of different epistemologies of published research in development studies.

在这篇文章中，我展示了对 17 种国际发展研究期刊上发表的 61,781 篇论文的地缘政治多样性的分析结果，以及另一项分析的结果，其中我分析了 260 名教职员工的职业轨迹10 个高度重视的发展研究部门。关于地缘政治多样性，我发现在研究产出和教育轨迹方面存在系统性不平等。我认为，这些不平衡与发展研究作为旨在减少地缘政治不平等的学科所表达的目标和价值观相矛盾。还讨论了政策影响，其中我建议重新考虑学术招聘标准，并提高发展研究中已发表研究的不同认识论的知名度。