危险的道路:重新想象非洲学术界的晋升和任期
Alphonsus Neba1, Luchuo Engelbert Bain1
1African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Nairobi, Kenya.
The Pan African medical journal
|October 7, 2024
概括
目前的学术出版系统不利于非洲期刊. 用与背景相关的指标重新定义学术优点,并评估本地出版物对于公平的研究影响和学术沟通脱殖民主义至关重要.
科学领域:
- 学术传播学术交流
- 学术出版学术出版是一门学术出版业.
- 研究影响力研究影响力
背景情况:
- 全球科学出版系统倾向于高影响力的西方期刊,边缘化来自低收入和中等收入国家的出版物,特别是在非洲.
- 研究者的价值往往与出版物数量和期刊声望有关,从而创造了一个不公平的系统.
- 传统的影响因子指标越来越多地被质疑作为衡量学术价值和研究影响的指标.
研究的目的:
- 从以非洲为中心的角度探索"出版或灭亡"文化对非洲学术界的影响.
- 倡导重新定义学术价值和学术出版物的重组.
- 促进非洲期刊的知名度和可信度.
主要方法:
- 这篇文章批判性地检查了现有的出版架构及其对非洲研究人员和机构的影响.
- 它分析了在非洲学术界的背景下学术优点的概念.
- 它提出了评估本地研究和期刊的替代指标和策略.
主要成果:
- 目前的系统使非洲期刊在很大程度上看不见,并低估了来自非洲大陆的研究.
- 在发表在高影响力的期刊和实现现实世界的影响之间存在着显著的脱节.
- 解除出版空间的殖民化需要对非洲期刊的有意投资和信任.
结论:
- 通过上下文相关的指标重新定义学术成绩对于公平的研究评估至关重要.
- 非洲政府和大学必须积极投资,信任和推广自己的期刊.
- 采用以非洲为中心的出版方法,例如非洲人口和健康研究中心 (APHRC) 模式等倡议,可以使全球出版景观脱殖,并增强非洲的研究影响.
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