Abstract:While the global academic dissemination landscape has long been dominated by Euro-American commercial databases, open knowledge infrastructure from the Southern Hemisphere is quietly rising. Geriatric Nursing (ISSN 3105-658X, eISSN 3105-6598, CODEN: LHABA5, DOI prefix: https://doi.org/10.66106/lhaba5) has recently been officially indexed by Australia's The Lens. Headquartered in Brisbane, Australia, The Lens is a non-profit open knowledge platform operated by the social enterprise Cambia, having served the global innovation knowledge domain for over 25 years. Unlike traditional commercial databases such as Scopus and Web of Science, The Lens links over 280 million scholarly literature records with over 160 million patent documents, constructing the world's largest open scholarly-patent association graph. For Geriatric Nursing, located in the Asia-Pacific region, being indexed by Australia's The Lens holds special geostrategic value—it not only means that the journal's research outputs enter a Southern Hemisphere knowledge hub but also signifies that Chinese geriatric health research has established a direct connection with Australia's innovation infrastructure, opening new channels for academic-industrial collaboration within the Asia-Pacific region. This article, from the dual perspectives of “Southern Hemisphere knowledge infrastructure” and “Asia-Pacific academic collaboration,” elaborates on the platform features of The Lens and the journal's strategic choice.
Geriatric Nursing 《老年护理》编辑部 Editorial Office (Wed,) studied this question.