Who Counts? : Ghanaian Academic Publishing and Global Science

'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 fo...

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Autores principales: David Mills, Patricia Kingori, Abigail Branford, Samuel Chatio, Natasha Robinson, Paulina Tindana
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Publicado: African Minds 2023
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