CIRCULATION OF ACADEMIC KNOWLEDGE AND RECOGNITION

BEIGEL, FERNANDA

ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF ACADEMIC KNOWLEDGE CIRCULATION

Routledge

Lugar: New York; Año: 2023; p. 75 - 87

In the lasttwo decades, mainstream journals and university rankings became synonymous withglobal science because citation indexes and the impact factor “universalised” aparticular style of writing, hiding the fact that these databases were highlyendogamous. Several studies have observed that the publishing indicatorscollected by the Institute for Scientific Information, created in 1959 led tothe accumulation of centrality and, at the same time, to the marginalisation ofthe scientific “periphery” (Ortiz, 2009; Guédon, 2011; Gingras, 2016). Eventually,this form of communication didn’t increase cosmopolitanism but rather confined thedialogue among a limited group of journals and to a unique language. Thus, thehistory of the so-called mainstream circuit is marked by the fact that foralmost 50 years, the Science Citation Index (1964) and other tools created byEugene Garfield in the ISI monopolised the path for the internationalisation ofscience and boosted the hyper-centrality of English as the most valuabletransactional linguistic capital (De Swaan, 2001; Gerhards, 2014).