The alarming erosion of scientific publication
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https://doi.org/10.51896/easc.v2i2.708Keywords:
Social alienation, science of science, corruption, selective dissemination of information, text editing, critical thinking, scientific publicationAbstract
Ideas must be public. No knowledge can be built if ideas are not shared. No progress is made if it is not possible to climb on the shoulders of others. Scientific publication is not just convenient or advisable: it is imperative. And yet, this task constitutes an amazingly complex problem with no simple solutions. The scientific community is made up of millions of individuals. Managing the communication and sharing of ideas in this scenario in a correct, fair and functional way is far from being simple. The following text is a brief (and biased) analysis of the current state of the scientific publication system, being discussed how it has hijacked the scientific activity both because of the effort and resources that must be invested in it, and because of how it influences the direction science research must take. And how, together with researchers, journals have participated in the decline and trivialization of scientific communication and the transformation of science into a business.
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