“…Amongst the most obvious examples of "entry level" (Bourdieu, 2004) academic capital like BA, MA or PhD degrees accomplished in the Global North, scientists could collect advanced types of capital in the form of Global North postdoctoral research experience, international grants, Global North affiliations (Shen et al, 2018) and, mostly, publications in leading periodicals (Cole, 1967;Hanssen et al, 2017). Networking, collaboration and coauthorship are also sources of measurable academic capital in terms of both citation and publication output (Bormann, 2017; Coccia and Bozemann, 2016;Henriksen, 2018;Katz, 1999;Ronda-Pupo and Katz, 2018).…”