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 …

Why are Nigeria's universities launching a growing number of open access journals while
simultaneously expecting their academic staff to publish 'internationally'? And what impact …

Bibliometric coloniality refers to the system of domination of global academic publishing by
bibliometric indexes based in the Global North, which serve as gatekeepers of academic …

Indigenous journal publication is vital to the well‐being of the African research enterprise in
ways that the high‐profile initiatives of Western publishers have, so far, failed to address …

In the previous chapter we presented a high-level overview of African science. We referred
to the neglect of African science and higher education during the last three decades of the …

This article explores the state of the knowledge domain and the capacity of scholarly
communication on the African continent at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It …

Research and publication are some of the practices that define university work and therefore
are part and parcel of the key considerations for promoting university-based academics …

Scholarly publishing in South Africa : facing reality Page 1 Scholarly publishing in South
Africa: Facing reality Most people have no quarrel with claims made for the significance and …

Debates about the asymmetries in global scholarly production have highlighted the
problems that hound African scholarship, ranging from the political economy of publishing to …

Two strands of influence have affected the publication of local scholarly journals in South
Africa in the recent past. The first of these was the establishment of the Bureau of Scientific …