Moving beyond centre-periphery science: towards an ecology of knowledge by Marginson, S, Xu, X

“…The paper critiques the dominant imaginary of world science, world-systems theory with its centre-periphery model. This theory fails to grasp the dynamics of the specifically global system, and radically under-estimates agency outside the ‘centre’ countries, as shown by the manner in which nation-states and autonomous researchers on the ‘semi-periphery’ and ‘periphery’ have been able to rapidly develop science. …”