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Communication or Business?
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https://doi.org/10.24215/26183188e005Keywords:
scientific publications, scientific evaluation, open access, scientific publications, scientific evaluation, open accessAbstract
Six large publishers, five of them private for profit, account for more than 50% of indexed scientific publications worldwide, obtaining global profit margins of almost 40%. These large publishing companies impose criteria, rules and values determined by themselves, such as the impact factor, to increase their business. These parameters are usually used by scientific institutions as quality criteria and have a negative influence on the evaluation policies of scientific activity like the orientation and development of the projects that are carried out, especially in peripheral countries attempt. They also against the free circulation of scientific information. Given this situation, why does the scientific community maintain a system that profits from the knowledge and work of scientists without an obvious contribution to society?. This article presents an overview of this problem and proposes some possible alternatives to face the changes that this situation requires.
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