Peer-reviewed journals are routinely monitored in the world of science, especially on the basis of their performance in international scholarly indexes such as Web of Science and Scopus. While critics have highlighted the bias and 'unintended consequences' of these instruments, it is not at all clear how these indexes are changing the ways in which research takes place. In this paper, we discuss the opportunities and problems facing scientific journals within this environment. By means of 12 qualitative interviews with editors-in-chief of WoS-indexed journals edited in Chile, we analyse the editors' perceptions and strategies to surf within this environment. The article highlights the current tensions that indexation brings for the journals and some strategies to cope with them, the negotiation processes with their traditional audiences, and the conflicts that emerge in the current internationalization processes led by international scientific indexes. Finally, the paper concludes by reflecting on the possibilities and pitfalls that index-led internationalization has for journals, especially in so-called semi-peripheral communities.

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期刊编辑和期刊索引：科学世界半边缘的国际化压力

同行评议的期刊在科学界经常受到监督，特别是根据它们在国际学术索引（如 Web of Science 和 Scopus）中的表现。虽然批评者强调了这些工具的偏见和“意想不到的后果”，但尚不清楚这些指数如何改变研究进行的方式。在本文中，我们讨论了在这种环境下科学期刊面临的机遇和问题。通过对在智利编辑的 WoS 索引期刊的主编进行 12 次定性采访，我们分析了编辑在这种环境中冲浪的看法和策略。这篇文章重点介绍了索引化给期刊带来的当前紧张局势以及应对这些紧张局势的一些策略，与传统受众的谈判过程，以及当前以国际科学指标为主导的国际化进程中出现的冲突。最后，论文最后反思了索引主导的国际化对期刊的可能性和陷阱，尤其是在所谓的半外围社区中。