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If globalization is real and effective, then academic research is not immune from its impact. For example, we might expect that social science publications in the first half of the twentieth century would be dominated by European and North American scholars, but, by the start of the twenty-first century, research from all around the world would be making an equal impact.

Read this article:

Mosbah-Natanson, S., and Gingras, Y. (2014) ‘The Globalization of Social Sciences? Evidence from a Quantitative Analysis of 30 Years of Production, Collaboration and Citations in the Social Sciences (1980–2009)’, Current Sociology, 62(5): 626–46.

Set out the paper’s main argument that Europe and North America remain the dominant forces in the production of social scientific journal articles and consider the following:

 Why have other regions not made the kind of breakthrough we might expect?

 What evidence do the authors introduce to show that researchers in ‘peripheral’ regions still show deference to those from the ‘centre’?

 How successful is this model of ‘centre–periphery’?

 What, if anything, do we learn about globalization from this paper?