Cybernating the academe: Centralized scholarly ranking and visibility of scholars in the developing world
Cybernating the academe: Centralized scholarly ranking and visibility of scholars in the developing world
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DOI：
10.1177/0165551509358482
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发表时间：
2010-04-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Nwagwu, Williams E.
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作者：
Nwagwu, Williams E.
本文使用社会控制论的比喻来解释新自由主义科学政治的表现，即部署信息技术以同质化、集中化和全球化学术表现标准，这一发展使世界上已经在使用这些技术方面具有竞争优势的发达地区受益。国际引文索引收集、组织和分析主要来自北方的世界学术出版物的倾斜比例，并对全球科学知识的状况和结构进行概括，从而对全球知识话语施加不适当的控制和约束。这些数据库没有考虑到全球人力资源和其他资源的多样性和复杂性。然而，具有区域、国家和组织重点的自治数据库正在开始出现，但非洲和许多其他发展中区域尚未提供这样的基础设施。然而，预计非洲社会科学研究发展理事会目前的非洲引文索引项目将有助于缩小这一差距。
This article uses a metaphor of social cybernetics to explain the neoliberal science politics manifest in the deployment of information technology to homogenize, centralize and globalize scholarly performance criteria, a development that benefits the developed regions of the world that already have a competitive advantage in the use of the technologies. The international citation indexes collect, organize and analyse skewed proportions of the world's scholarly publications mainly from the North and make generalizations about the state and structure of global scientific knowledge, thus exerting undue control and discipline on global intellectual discourse. The databases do not accord any deference to the global diversity and complexity in human and other resources. However, autonomous databases that have regional, national and organizational focuses are beginning to emerge, but such an infrastructure is not yet available in Africa and many other developing regions. It is envisaged, however, that the current African Citation Index Project of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa will contribute in bridging this gap.