No. 13 (2026)

Although academic institutions have sought to contribute to the global circulation of knowledge, they do not always do so under the spirit of open science. Some institutions, in their pursuit of rigor, adopt exclusionary models based on closed science, often drawing on medical/clinical systems of knowledge production and the hegemonic use of technical English as reference points. Within this framework of expanded possibilities for accessing global knowledge, a series of challenges emerge: the distribution of research resources, the concentration of intellectual capital, the reach of university-generated knowledge, the openness and perceived “free” nature of information, and the questions of who grants recognition and validity in knowledge production, as well as how and why. In this issue, we present two articles that contribute to this discussion.