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Journal editors and journal indexes: Internationalization pressures in the semi‐periphery of the world of science

“…Against this background, inclusion in (and thus coverage by) WoS is in this part of the world increasingly presented as the major indication of scientific quality, of visibility and impact in the field of science (Collazo-Reyes, 2014;Collazo-Reyes et al, 2017).…”

“…During the early years of this expansion, for example, the number of Latin American journals covered by WoS increased from 69 in 2006 to 248 in 2009. Against this background, inclusion in (and thus coverage by) WoS is in this part of the world increasingly presented as the major indication of scientific quality, of visibility and impact in the field of science (Collazo‐Reyes, 2014; Collazo‐Reyes et al, 2017).…”

“…Such developments raise a number of questions, for example, the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) from 2012, the Leiden manifesto from 2015, or cOAlition S from 2018. But while the commercialization and geopolitics of scientific knowledge occupy a central place in a range of recent studies on scientific exchange and collaboration in the (semi‐)periphery (e.g., Collazo‐Reyes et al, 2017; Gazni, 2015; Paasi, 2015), little is hitherto known about how journals from the (semi‐)periphery deal with the pressures from their environment of scientific indexes. In this paper, we discuss some of these hitherto neglected aspects of the scientific structure by analysing how editors‐in‐chief of leading Chilean journals perceive the ongoing transformations, and how they try to navigate within this new environment.…”