Abstract
The goal of the Open Access movement is to promote free access to scientific literature. From its creation in the nineties it has been a fundamental support to the democratization of knowledge. In the last years, however, a new fraud model has been detected: journals that use open access publications as "Predatory Journals", which do not fulfill minimal quality standards and profit with the model. To inform the Latin American community about such editorial malpractice, we have reviewed the literature about this issue, aiming to explain what predatory journals are, how to detect them and how they contact authors. One of this article's main conclusion is that students, academics and researchers need to develop skills to recognize this or any other kinds of publication fraud.
Highlights
Santiago, Chile. aKinesióloga, Magíster en Epidemiología, Magíster en Bioestadística, Alumna del Doctorado en Salud Pública. bBibliotecaria documentalista
From its creation in the nineties it has been a fundamental support to the democratization of knowledge
To inform the Latin American community about such editorial malpractice, we have reviewed the literature about this issue, aiming to explain what predatory journals are, how to detect them and how they contact authors
Summary
Chile. 2Unidad de Patrimonio Cultural de la Salud. Ministerio de Salud. Además, la fuerte tiranía que sufren los científicos por parte del índice-h (cálculo realizado en base a las citas que reciben los artículos de un investigador), que se ha convertido en un recurso para postular a empleos, ascender en la carrera académica, presumir en los currículos o conseguir publicaciones en revistas de alto impacto y financiación externa, aunque todos estos objetivos escapan al propósito de la difusión científica. Los criterios utilizados por Beall han recibido varias críticas, dado que el académico no especifica en profundidad el método específico para categorizar si una revista es depredadora, y al hecho de haber definido como depredadoras a revistas legítimas, en algunas ocasiones, particularmente revistas provenientes de países de ingresos económicos medios y bajos[9].
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