Response of Local Academia to the Internationalization of Research Policies in a Non-Anglophone Country1
Resposta da academia local à internacionalização das políticas de pesquisa em um país não anglófono
Respuesta del mundo académico local a la internacionalización de las políticas de investigación en un país no anglófono
Moldashev K. Tleuov A.
2022Arizona State University
Education Policy Analysis Archives
2022#30
World University Rankings (WUR) are growing in prominence in the eyes of governments and universities around the world. Often this encourages the introduction of state-or institution-wide policies and regulations that put academics and graduate students under performative pressure to publish in international, peer-reviewed journals with a high impact factor (e.g., Scopus-or Web of Science-indexed journals). Such publication requirements are part of the broader internationalization of research (IoR) policies being implemented in many countries. This article adopts a faculty-based perspective and explores the response of academia to IoR policies in Kazakhstan, a developing country that actively pursues a strategy of integrating local academia into the global scientific community. The authors develop a typology of responses based on a literature review to guide the data collection and interpretation. Data for this study were collected through document analysis and semi-structured interviews. Findings suggest that IoR policies lead to a variety of responses from academia, including gaming and token conformity.
academic integrity , internationalization of research , Kazakhstan , publish or perish , research practices , scientific community
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NARXOZ University, Kazakhstan
KIMEP University, Kazakhstan
NARXOZ University
KIMEP University
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