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Les études médiatiques dans les BRICS contre les bases de données occidentales: critique de la domination académique anglophone.
L’idée de cet article est de mettre en question l’approche bibliométrique dans les recherches en matière des médias dans les pays BRICS. Cette approche est de plus en plus utilisée dans l’évaluation académique et d’une manière paradoxale de plus en plus dans les pays de « la nouvelle croissance économique », dont BRICS représentent un cas important. Dans ces pays les gouvernements sont même plus impliqués dans la construction des « universités d’excellence », un nouveau modèle qui remplace l’université comme institution de la reproduction de la culture. Dans ce processus les bases des données des publications académiques deviennent un instrument important de l’évaluation managériale de l’efficacité de l’Université qui constitue à son tour le système des classements dans lequel les établissements russes, chinois, brésiliens deviennent de plus en plus présents. L’étude empirique sur les outils bibliométriques numériques montre clairement que la bibliométrie numérique privilégie davantage des publications anglophones ce que largement contribuent à la domination dans le raisonnement scientifique, les idées véhiculées par des revues scientifiques de la culture empirique anglophone issue des sciences sociales ce que dévalorise la tradition des sciences humaines plus cher à l’école française.
La deuxième conclusion que l’auteur tire de cette étude est qu’il est fort difficile de parler d’un groupe particulier des publications des études médias dans les BRICS tout simplement parce que d’une manière théorique ce groupe est très hétérogène. Parmi toutes publications qui sont indexées dans le domaine des communications et cultural studies dans les pays BRICS, 2/3 des publications sont chinoises ce que rend ce pays incomparable avec d’autres.
Autre conclusion est qu'appart l’Afrique du Sud où les revues anglophones sont très présentes les autres pays sont très détachés de l'agenda mondial des publications : les études brésiliennes et russes sont très peu citées par le monde anglophone et vice-versa. Cela est compréhensible du point de vue des classements universitaires dont le système a commencé à affecter ces pays dans le temps assez récent.
The article examines the status system of the local academic community of St. Petersburg sociologists. The list of most cited authors was obtained from citation analysis of selected Russian sociological journals. The results suggest that the status system is divided in isolated segments with few citation exchanges between different segments. Each part of the sociological community produces its own list of influentials. With a few exceptions there are no authors central for the whole community. Even the embeddedness of various segments in the same local space does not stimulate circulation of attention between different parts of the community.
A bibliometric crisis is defined as a more or less marked decline of basic bibliometric indicators interrupting a preceding period of stable growth or stagnation. The crises of 1930–1931 and 1941–1942 revealed from the previous studies (Kozhevnikov & Petrosova, 1991) were analysed in depth on the basis of the data on the publication of biological serials in USSR from 1917 through 1949 and a set of more detailed data on selected journals covering the period from 1921 through 1958. It is shown that even though the scale of decline of 1930–1931 was comparable to that of 1941–1942, the fine structure of the two crises and their impact on the continuity of the corpus of biological serials were different. The application of the logistic growth model to the analysis of publication of scholarly serials is discussed. It is argued that, for the purposes of our analysis, momentary data are more indicative than cumulative ones.
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