Mills: Who Counts
eBook - ePub

Mills: Who Counts

Ghanaian Academic Publishing and Global Science

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Mills: Who Counts

Ghanaian Academic Publishing and Global Science

About this book

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 ëhigh impactí 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 ëNortherní journals and by global publishing conglomerates. This book goes beyond the numbers. It shows 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 Ghanaís researchers disseminating their work, and what do these experiences reveal about an unequal global science system? Is there pressure to publish in ëreputableí. international journals? What role do supervisors, collaborators and mentors play? And how do academics manage in conditions of scarcity?

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Frequently used acronyms and abbreviations
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. 1 Introduction: ‘You don’t want to perish’
  8. 2 The rise, fall and future of African academic publishing
  9. 3 Why publish? Surviving in the Ghanaian university system
  10. 4 In search of the ‘international’ journal
  11. 5 Learning how to publish: Mentorship, supervision and co-authorship
  12. 6 Scarcity and Ghanaian research culture
  13. 7 What does the editor think? Perspectives from Ghanaian academic journals
  14. 8 Independent academic publishing in anglophone Africa
  15. 9 Ghana’s research cultures and the global bibliometric economy
  16. 10 Conclusion: Beyond bibliometric coloniality?
  17. Appendix: Research design and ethics
  18. References
  19. Glossary of terms