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Main Authors: GHICA, Luciana Alexandra, Tufis, Claudiu Daniel
Format: Recurso digital
Language:English
Published: Zenodo 2025
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-025-00547-3
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author GHICA, Luciana Alexandra
Tufis, Claudiu Daniel
author_facet GHICA, Luciana Alexandra
Tufis, Claudiu Daniel
contents <p>Romanian Political Science was institutionalized mostly after the fall of the communist regime. While the number of Political Science departments has declined after the 2000s, the number of journals continued to increase. We investigate this unusual pattern, focusing on the journals’ relationship with their home universities and editorial teams, and on their reaction to the opening of Romanian Political Science to the outside world. In a context characterized by low competition, lack of resources, and the absence of functioning professional associations and national conferences, the journals failed to cut across departmental boundaries and evolve into a national platform for scientific publishing. Changes in national academic standards also brought them into direct competition with international journals. Although, through internationalization, standards of scientific publishing have improved, the landscape of Romanian Political Science journals remains semiperipheral, and the national community continues to be fragmented and tribal.</p>
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spellingShingle The landscape of political science journals in Romania
GHICA, Luciana Alexandra
Tufis, Claudiu Daniel
Romania
Central and Eastern Europe
Academic journals
Political science as a discipline
<p>Romanian Political Science was institutionalized mostly after the fall of the communist regime. While the number of Political Science departments has declined after the 2000s, the number of journals continued to increase. We investigate this unusual pattern, focusing on the journals’ relationship with their home universities and editorial teams, and on their reaction to the opening of Romanian Political Science to the outside world. In a context characterized by low competition, lack of resources, and the absence of functioning professional associations and national conferences, the journals failed to cut across departmental boundaries and evolve into a national platform for scientific publishing. Changes in national academic standards also brought them into direct competition with international journals. Although, through internationalization, standards of scientific publishing have improved, the landscape of Romanian Political Science journals remains semiperipheral, and the national community continues to be fragmented and tribal.</p>
title The landscape of political science journals in Romania
topic Romania
Central and Eastern Europe
Academic journals
Political science as a discipline
url https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-025-00547-3