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Certifying Knowledge Under Neoliberalism: Global Inequality and Academic Wellbeing

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The Inner World of Gatekeeping in Scholarly Publication

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In this chapter, I offer an auto-ethnographic account of my own knowledge certification practices, specifically that of peer reviewing.

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Notes

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    The 37% profit margin is from the 2015 STM report authored by Ware and Mabe (2015); profit margins were not disclosed in the 2018 report, authored by Johnson et al. (2018), which instead underscored the many costs associated with journal production.

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    I am grateful to Janja Komljenovic for this idea, which she shared at the CGHE Annual Conference 2021: Remaking higher education for a more equal world.

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The author acknowledges the UK Research and Innovation for funding under a Future Leaders Fellowship (Grant reference: MR/T021500/1) for enabling the conceptual work underpinning this chapter.

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Hultgren, A.K. (2022). Certifying Knowledge Under Neoliberalism: Global Inequality and Academic Wellbeing. In: Habibie, P., Hultgren, A.K. (eds) The Inner World of Gatekeeping in Scholarly Publication. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06519-4_10

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