Epistemic injustices in scientific production

This line of work forms part of my dissertation work on identifying epistemic injustices in scientific production. The thesis project addresses the representation, content, and use of science from peripheral regions, relying on international and regional academic databases to contribute to a pluralistic view of global science.

PhD Dissertation

Alonso-Álvarez, P. (2026) Epistemic injustice in science. A conceptual and bibliometric exploration through a study of African academic literature. Available here.

Related publications

Alonso-Álvarez, P. & Boshoff, N. (2026). Citation patterns of local and non-local African publications: A comparative analysis of five measures of local research. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17865911

Alonso-Álvarez, P. & van Eck, N. J. (2025). Coverage and metadata completeness and accuracy of African research publications in OpenAlex: A comparative analysis. Quantitative Science Studies. https://doi.org/10.1162/QSS.a.396

Alonso-Álvarez (2025). A small step towards the epistemic decentralization of science: A dataset of journals and publications indexed in African Journals Online. Journal of Data and Information Science. https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2025-0034
Data

Alonso-Álvarez, P. (2024). Exploring research quality and journal representation: A comparative study of African Journals Online, Web of Science, and Scopus. Research Evaluation, 33, rvae057. https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvae057
Preprint
Data and materials

Alonso-Álvarez, P. (2024) Towards a situated notion of research quality: An exploratory study of three journal quality frameworks. In: Ma, L., Ochsner, M., & Kulczycki, E. (2024, May 16). RESSH2024 Book of Abstracts. Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and Humanities (RESSH2024), Galway, Ireland. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11203991
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