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03532aam a2200385 i 4500 001 51A211B2CD6211EE9507C16149ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240217010049 008 230814t20232022sa b 000 0 eng 010 $a 2023405787 020 $a 9781928502647 020 $a 1928502644 035 $a (OCoLC)1371584312 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d HUL $d OI@ $d OCLCF $d YDX $d EEM $d OCLCO $d OSU $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a f------ $a f------ 050 00 $a Z468.G5 $b M55 2023 100 1 $a Mills, David, $d 1969- $e author. $1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjDRQXYqHCgXQh4v3h8VFq 245 10 $a Who counts? : $b Ghanaian academic publishing and global science / $c David Mills, Patricia Kingori, Abigail Branford [and 3 others]. 264 1 $a Cape Town, South Africa : $b African Minds, $c 2023. 300 $a x, 227 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "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 high impact 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 Northern 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 Ghana's researchers disseminating their work, and what do these experiences reveal about an unequal global science system? Is there pressure to publish in reputable. international journals? What role do supervisors, collaborators and mentors play? And how do academics manage in conditions of scarcity? Putting the insights of more than 40 Ghanaian academics into dialogue with journal editors and publishers from across the continent, the book highlights creative responses, along with the emergence of new regional research ecosystems. This is an important Africa-centred analysis of Anglophone academic publishing on the continent and its relationship to global science."-- $c Back cover. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a 1. Introduction: 'You don't want to perish' - 2. The rise, fall and future of African academic publishing - 3. Why publish? Surviving in the Ghanaian university system - 4. In search of the 'international' journal - 5. Learning how to publish: Mentorship, supervision and co-authorship - 6. Scarcity and Ghanaian research culture - 7. What does the editor think? Perspectives from Ghanaian academic journals - 8. Independent academic publishing in anglophone Africa -- Ghana's research cultures and the global bibliometric economy - 10. Conclusion: Beyond bibliometric coloniality? -- Appendix: Research design and ethics 650 0 $a Scholarly publishing $z Ghana. 650 0 $a Scholarly publishing $z Africa. 650 0 $a Academic writing $x Publishing. 650 0 $a Research $x Social aspects $z Ghana. 650 7 $a Scholarly publishing $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01106866 651 7 $a Ghana $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01208741 700 1 $a Kingori, Patricia, $e author. 700 1 $a Branford, Abigail, $e author. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240217011154.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=51A211B2CD6211EE9507C16149ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search