Publishing internationally on local governments – publication strategies to cope with peripherality of location on the map of knowledge production

Academics from peripheral or semi-peripheral regions are less visible from those form the core in international journals enjoying the highest reputation. The paper studies strategies applied by scholars from universities in non-global core countries to cope with barriers preventing them from publishing internationally. The core of empirical material has been collecting through: - Reputational survey indicating list of the most reputable scholars studying local governments in selected European countries - Detail publication and citation records of selected scholars - In-depth interviews focused on publication strategies conducted with local government scholars in four East European countries (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, North Macedonia and Poland). Their publication strategies are confronted with those applied in West European countries which until recently had been on peripheral or semi-peripheral position of academic knowledge production (Portugal and Spain).