That's very true. The costs are enormous, and also keeps the research closed off to many non-Western universities. Based on rankings such as [1], the research p

That's very true. The costs are enormous, and also keeps the research closed off to many non-Western universities. Based on rankings such as [1], the research performance is heavily skewed to the US and UK. To gain a greater global perspective, research needs to push outside of these bounds. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_Ranking_of_Scientific_Papers_for_World_Universities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_Ranking_of_Scienti...