When an article is published, an author wonders who will read it and utilize the information presented.  To date, no research has been published analyzing the relationship between an article’s country of affiliation with its references. Using Crossref, we collected the Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) of one hundred statistics articles and transitively retrieved the references used by each article.  We recorded the country of affiliation for each article and reference and then calculated the local ratio from these values.  Neighbors were estimated using three different criteria.  The spatial correlation of these estimated neighbors was ascertained using the local ratios. No correlation was found, and many factors are considered to contribute to this lack of correlation such as academic precedence, GDP, population, geolocation, etc.