...Lai Ma Purpose The article highlights the significance of the centre-(semi-)peripheries dynamics in the co-construction of global public goods and the limits of openness in global knowledge production. Challenging the assumption of global public good is not to discount the benefits of openness...

... For Rosa (2010) , the logic of acceleration is totalitarian when “all individuals and political energies being sacrificed to the acceleration-machine” (p. 82). In the context of knowledge production, metrics are embedded in the larger system of knowledge production, researchers and universities cannot...

...Lai Ma Purpose This paper aims to understand the nature of citations and metrics in the larger system of knowledge production involving universities, funding agencies, publishers, and indexing and data analytic services. Design/methodology/approach First, the normative and social...

... with which the wiki platform has become synonymous, and the distinctly regimented ways in which knowledge is produced on Wikipedia and other wikis may be explained by insights attained in the sociocultural study of knowledge [1] , where knowledge production is colloquially viewed as bounded and particular...

...Birger Hjørland, Hans Jørn Nielsen and Helene Høyrup; Niels Ole Finnemann Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to improve comprehension of some of the intricate interrelations between research libraries, the role of media and the knowledge production system. Design/methodology/approach...