Research integrity in publishing: decolonial perspectives

David Mills and Kelsey Inouye

Chapter 20 in Handbook of Meta-Research, 2024, pp 251-262 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Asian Studies; Business and Management; Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Education; Environment; Geography; Innovations and Technology; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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