A multi-scale perspective for assessing publishing circuits in non-hegemonic countries
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University Rankings and impact factor indicators were critical in the extension of the global belief in the intrinsic academic value of “World Class Institutions,” along with the international recognition of successful individuals forged through mainstream journals. However, these supposedly global standards were not adopted passively, nor massively, in the so-called periphery. Drawing from quantitative and qualitative studies of evaluative cultures in Latin America, particularly in Argentina, this paper observes various circuits of recognition and different paths for prestige-building. First, it discusses a multi-scale approach to national scientific fields highlighting heterogeneity in terms of the orientation of research agendas and styles of academic publishing. Evaluative cultures are examined as a complex set of instances of legitimation that provide room for maneuvering between global standards and local orders. Second, the paper delves into the role played by Latin America in forging an open access, non-commercial, regional publishing circuit with a dominant, but not exclusive, composition of journals from the social sciences and humanities. Finally, it argue that facing this dynamical publishing ecosystem developed in the public domain, national research assessment systems are alienated by incentives directed only to performance in mainstream publishing.
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Using the example of the Latin American publishing context, Beigel (2021) finds that within the so-called periphery, regional centres emerge.
“Using the example of the Latin American publishing context, Beigel (2021) finds that within the so-called periphery, regional centres emerge, which calls for closer inspection of publication patterns within regions.”
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- Authors
- Beigel, F.
- Affiliations
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (AR)
- Corresponding author
- Beigel, Fernanda
- ORCID
- Beigel, Fernanda
- Venue
- Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2021-01-01
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2572-9861 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3133643203
- Cited by
- 44
- References
- 47
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 13
- FWCI
- 5.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- public-domain
- creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (vor)
- Locations
- Tapuya Latin American Science Technology and Society (publishedVersion, public-domain)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Conicet (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (PICT 2017-2647)
- UNCuyo (SIIP-UNCUYO 06/F395)
- CONICET (PIP 2014-0157)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Publishing and Scholarly Communication
- Social Sciences › Demography › Science, Technology, and Education in Latin America
- Keywords
- Latin America, Argentina, university rankings, impact factor, legitimation, multiscale analysis
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