Who Counts?
Since the 1990s, global academic publishing has been transformed by digitisation, consolidation and the rise of the internet. The data produced by commercially owned citation indexes increasingly defines legitimate academic knowledge. Publication in prestigious ‘high impact’ journals can be traded f...
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African Minds
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| Rochtain ar líne: | ONIX_20230724_9781928502647_29 |
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| author | Mills, David Kingori, Patricia Branford, Abigail Chatio, Samuel T. Robinson, Natasha Tindana, Paulina |
| author_browse | Branford, Abigail Chatio, Samuel T. Kingori, Patricia Mills, David Robinson, Natasha Tindana, Paulina |
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| description | Since the 1990s, global academic publishing has been transformed by digitisation, consolidation and the rise of the internet. The data produced by commercially owned citation indexes increasingly defines legitimate academic knowledge. Publication in prestigious ‘high impact’ journals can be traded for academic promotion, tenure and job-security. African researchers and publishers labour in the shadows of a global knowledge system dominated by ‘Northern’ journals and by global publishing conglomerates. This book goes beyond the numbers. It tells the story of how the Ghanaian academy is being transformed by this bibliometric economy. It offers a rich account of the voices and perspectives of Ghanaian academics and African journal publishers. How, where and when are Ghana’s researchers disseminating their work, and what do these experiences reveal about an unequal global science system? Is there pressure to publish in ‘reputable’ international journals, what role do supervisors, collaborators and mentors play, and how do academics manage in conditions of scarcity? Putting the insights of more than 40 Ghanaian academics into dialogue with journal editors and publishers from across the continent, the book highlights creative responses, along with the emergence of new regional research ecosystems. This is an important Africa-centred analysis of Anglophone academic publishing on the continent and its relationship to global science. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1078452025-07-17T10:01:19Z Who Counts? Mills, David Kingori, Patricia Branford, Abigail Chatio, Samuel T. Robinson, Natasha Tindana, Paulina Ghana publishing science global sciece academic publishing thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNT Media, entertainment, information and communication industries::KNTP Publishing industry and journalism::KNTP1 Publishing and book trade thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNT Media, entertainment, information and communication industries::KNTP Publishing industry and journalism::KNTP1 Publishing and book trade thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues Since the 1990s, global academic publishing has been transformed by digitisation, consolidation and the rise of the internet. The data produced by commercially owned citation indexes increasingly defines legitimate academic knowledge. Publication in prestigious ‘high impact’ journals can be traded for academic promotion, tenure and job-security. African researchers and publishers labour in the shadows of a global knowledge system dominated by ‘Northern’ journals and by global publishing conglomerates. This book goes beyond the numbers. It tells the story of how the Ghanaian academy is being transformed by this bibliometric economy. It offers a rich account of the voices and perspectives of Ghanaian academics and African journal publishers. How, where and when are Ghana’s researchers disseminating their work, and what do these experiences reveal about an unequal global science system? Is there pressure to publish in ‘reputable’ international journals, what role do supervisors, collaborators and mentors play, and how do academics manage in conditions of scarcity? Putting the insights of more than 40 Ghanaian academics into dialogue with journal editors and publishers from across the continent, the book highlights creative responses, along with the emergence of new regional research ecosystems. This is an important Africa-centred analysis of Anglophone academic publishing on the continent and its relationship to global science. 2023-07-26T17:11:23Z 2023-07-26T17:11:23Z 2023-07-24T15:32:47Z 2023 book ONIX_20230724_9781928502647_29 OCN: 1395165247 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/64090 9781928502647 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/107845 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/64090/1/9781928502647.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/64090/1/9781928502647.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/64090/1/9781928502647.pdf African Minds 10.47622/9781928502647 10.47622/9781928502647 36099d72-8b22-4bf5-ab27-c2090263b9c6 9781928502647 ScholarLed 228 Cape Town open access |
| spellingShingle | Ghana publishing science global sciece academic publishing thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNT Media, entertainment, information and communication industries::KNTP Publishing industry and journalism::KNTP1 Publishing and book trade thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNT Media, entertainment, information and communication industries::KNTP Publishing industry and journalism::KNTP1 Publishing and book trade thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues Mills, David Kingori, Patricia Branford, Abigail Chatio, Samuel T. Robinson, Natasha Tindana, Paulina Who Counts? |
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| topic | Ghana publishing science global sciece academic publishing thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNT Media, entertainment, information and communication industries::KNTP Publishing industry and journalism::KNTP1 Publishing and book trade thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNT Media, entertainment, information and communication industries::KNTP Publishing industry and journalism::KNTP1 Publishing and book trade thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues |
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