Escaping ‘bibliometric coloniality’, ‘epistemic inequality’

"Africa’s scholarly journals compete on an unequal playing field because of a lack of funding and the struggle to sustain academic credibility. “These inequalities are exacerbated by the growing influence of the major citation indexes, leading to what we have called bibliometric coloniality,” say the authors of the book, Who Counts? Ghanaian academic publishing and global science, published by African Minds at the start of 2023. “The rules of the game continue to be defined outside the continent. We hope that, in some small way, this book contributes to the renaissance and renewal of African-centred research and publishing infrastructures,” the authors say...."