Achievements and tensions derived from the internationalization of national scholarly communities have attracted extensive attention. However, very little is hitherto known about the effects of these processes on specific situated communities. Through a multi-method approach (bibliometrics and interviews), we provide a nuanced description of these effects on the becoming of university-based sociology in Valparaiso, Chile, during the last fifteen or so years. The paper pays special attention to the emergence of a particular form of internationalization based on international indexes and rankings that has gained influence on the day-to-day practices of the scholarly communities in that part of the scholarly (semi-)periphery. We thoroughly described the entanglements of individual trajectories and institutional framings in the practices and discourses of sociologists in Valparaiso. The article concludes by highlighting the tensions arising from the encounter of traditions and some trade-offs of the current form of internationalization for (semi-)peripheral communities.

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十字路口的学术社区：智利瓦尔帕莱索的社会学网络国际化（2003-2019）

各国学界国际化所带来的成就和紧张局势引起了广泛关注。然而，迄今为止，人们对这些过程对特定社区的影响知之甚少。通过多种方法（文献计量学和访谈），我们详细描述了过去十五年左右智利瓦尔帕莱索大学社会学对大学社会学发展的影响。本文特别关注基于国际指数和排名的特定国际化形式的出现，这种国际化形式对那部分学术（半）边缘的学术界的日常实践产生了影响。我们彻底描述了瓦尔帕莱索社会学家的实践和话语中个人轨迹和制度框架的纠缠。文章最后强调了传统的遭遇和（半）外围社区当前国际化形式的一些权衡所引起的紧张局势。