Fernanda Beigel

Fernanda Beigel is a Principal Researcher at Argentina's National Council of Scientific Research (CONICET) and Head Professor at the National University of Cuyo, where she directs the PhD program in Social Sciences. She founded and leads the Research Center on International Circulation of Knowledge (CECIC), which coordinates projects on academic publishing, open science, and knowledge equity in Latin America. Her affiliations include chairing Argentina’s National Committee for Open Science and advising UNESCO on global open-access policies.

Her research examines:

• The sociology of scientific knowledge and academic dependency
• Open science models challenging commercial publishing oligopolies
• Multilingualism and bibliodiversity in scholarly communication
• Research assessment frameworks for the Global South

She has published extensively on these themes, with recent work analyzing Article Processing Charges (APCs), Latin American journal ecosystems, and decolonial approaches to knowledge circulation.

Academic Honors:

• Bernardo Houssay Science Medal (2003)
• CLACSO International Essay Prize (2004)
• Argentine Senate Award for Scientific Merit (2017)

At CECIC, she mentors doctoral/postdoctoral researchers and oversees initiatives like the OLIVA database, which maps Iberoamerican scholarly output. Her lab collaborates with UNESCO, CLACSO, and European universities to advance equitable knowledge systems.