“…An emphasis on citations as a means of evaluating the quality of an academic work can become a vicious cycle that can influence the processes of searching for and producing knowledge (Castiel and Sanz-Valero, 2007;Lawrence, 2008). This context, which encompasses academic productivity and citationism, has cast a shadow over academia causing irreversible damage, including: encouraging the precarities of an excess of redundant or superfluous information (Castiel and Sanz-Valero, 2007;Else and Van Noorden, 2021;Tian et al, 2016); promoting the publication of the same content in several articles across different journals, or "salami slicing", through the publication of underdeveloped, incomplete, split up, or repetitive articles (Castiel and Sanz-Valero, 2007;Lawrence, 2008;Rego, 2014); bombarding prestigious journals with submissions, occupying the time of editors and ad hoc reviewers in an exhausting review cycle (Rego, 2014); enabling the emergence of predatory publishers that have increased dramatically in number and wealth in recent years or companies that sell scientific articles to researchers (Rego, 2014;Else and Van Noorden, 2021); generating a stand-off between ethics and research as it forces scientists to produce "publishable" results at any cost, encouraging scientific misconduct (Castiel and Sanz-Valero, 2007;Fanelli, 2010;Moustafa, 2015;Rego, 2014;Rubbo et al, 2019;Sayão et al, 2021); and causing health issues among university professors (Leite, 2017;Tian et al, 2016).…”