TY - JOUR AU - Moldashev, Kairat AU - Tleuov, Askat PY - 2022/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Response of local academia to the internationalization of research policies in a non-Anglophone country JF - Education Policy Analysis Archives JA - EPAA VL - 30 IS - SE - DO - 10.14507/epaa.30.6788 UR - https://epaa.asu.edu/index.php/epaa/article/view/6788 SP - (56) AB - <p>World University Rankings (WUR) are growing in prominence in the eyes of governments and universities around the world. Often this encourages the introduction of state- or institution-wide policies and regulations that put academics and graduate students under performative pressure to publish in international, peer-reviewed journals with a high impact factor (e.g., Scopus- or Web of Science-indexed journals). Such publication requirements are part of the broader internationalization of research (IoR) policies being implemented in many countries. This article adopts a faculty-based perspective and explores the response of academia to IoR policies in Kazakhstan, a developing country that actively pursues a strategy of integrating local academia into the global scientific community. The authors develop a typology of responses based on a literature review to guide the data collection and interpretation. Data for this study were collected through document analysis and semi-structured interviews. Findings suggest that IoR policies lead to a variety of responses from academia, including gaming and token conformity.</p> ER -