Abstract

Since the 2000s, calls for de-Westernizing the international communication research have been common, but their practical result has been very modest, as the share of non-western countries remained minimal. This article explores the hypothesis that structural factors hamper the diversity in international media research, based on the analysis of the membership of journals listed in Clarivate's Journal of Citation Reports. The data demonstrate a strong unbalance in favor of the US -- and a particular group of US universities in special -- to the detriment of the non-Western countries. The article discusses these findings in reference to the emergence of academic capitalism and the global rankings logic, which is based on ``universal'' defined from a US (and secondarily Anglophonic) viewpoint. The JCR system plays an important role in this schema, as it artificially introduces scarcity in the international publishing system and, therefore, concentrates symbolic power in the hands of a few.

中文翻译：

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通信领域去西化的结构性局限性：Clarivate JCR系统中的编辑委员会

摘要

自2000年代以来，要求对国际传播研究进行西化的呼声很普遍，但是由于非西方国家所占的份额仍然很小，因此其实际成果非常有限。本文基于对Clarivate的《引文报告期刊》中所列期刊成员的分析，探讨了结构因素阻碍国际媒体研究多样化的假设。数据表明，美国和特别是美国的一所特殊大学群体之间存在着严重的不平衡，这对非西方国家是不利的。本文参考了学术资本主义的出现和全球排名逻辑对这些发现进行了讨论，这是基于从美国（其次是英语）的角度定义的``普遍性''而得出的。