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Research integrity in publishing: decolonial perspectives

In: Handbook of Meta-Research

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  • David Mills
  • Kelsey Inouye

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This chapter addresses the role of scientific journalism in debates about integrity in publishing. It offers a case-study of the ‘predatory publishing’ discourse promoted by the elite science journals and major commercial publishers. Tracing the emergence and amplification of this discourse, it reviews empirical evidence on the ‘publish-or-perish’ pressures placed on researchers, especially those based in resource-constrained universities in the global South. Drawing on research with Nigerian journal editors and publishing presses, the chapter explores the challenges that academic publishers across the global South face in meeting the technical requirements of the journal citation indexes and organisations such as the Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE). It argues that these supposedly ‘global’ publishing integrity standards risk sustaining knowledge coloniality by excluding journals that have under-resourced technical and publishing infrastructures.

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  • David Mills & Kelsey Inouye, 2024. "Research integrity in publishing: decolonial perspectives," Chapters, in: Alis Oancea & Gemma E. Derrick & Nuzha Nuseibeh & Xin Xu (ed.), Handbook of Meta-Research, chapter 20, pages 251-262, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:19695_20
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