Peripheral Scientists, between Ariel and Caliban. Institutional know-how and Circuits of Recognition in Argentina. The ?Career-best Publications? of the Researchers at CONICET

BEIGEL, FERNANDA

DADOS

IESP-UERJ

Lugar: Rio de Janeiro; Año: 2017 vol. 60 p. 63 - 102

0011-5258

Argentina is a dynamic scientific field, dominantly public, havingwitnessed athree-fold growth in the number of full-time researchers over the past decadeand the repatriation of over one thousand researchers that had emigrated intimes of crisis. Meanwhile, there has been a simultaneous deepening of thepolarization between internationalized scientists and those with a moreendogenous orientation. Although autonomous and heteronymous trendscoexist throughout the field, segmented scientific circuits have beenconsolidated revealing the dispute between two types of prestige: oneinternational and the other local/national. In the first part of this article, Ianalyze the morphology of this double-faceted academic elite, describing itsstyles of production and circulation. In the second part, I focus on theinternationalized profile, by means of an empirical study on the publicationsconsidered to be the ?most relevant? by researchers on the National Scientificand Technical Research Council (CONICET) when seeking for promotion.