Peripheral scholarship and the context of foreign paid publishing in Nigeria
@article{Omobowale2014PeripheralSA, title={Peripheral scholarship and the context of foreign paid publishing in Nigeria}, author={Ayokunle Olumuyiwa Omobowale and O. Akanle and A. Adeniran and K. Adegboyega}, journal={Current Sociology}, year={2014}, volume={62}, pages={666 - 684} }
Lately, a phenomenal dimension of peripheral scholarship, compulsorily demanding the ‘foreign’, has evolved into the practice of paid publishing in ‘foreign’ journals among Nigerian academics. These ‘foreign’ journals afford speedy publishing at a fee with little or no peer review. This study is a descriptive research which collected qualitative data through 30 in-depth interviews conducted with academics in two federal universities in Nigeria. The findings established that though some… CONTINUE READING
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