Lisura e credibilidade: termos irmanados da pesquisa científica

Abstract

An important part of this complicated ecosystem is scientific journals, which are the vehicle responsible for legitimizing and disseminating the results of research. The exponential appearance of new journals, as well as their practices for evaluating articles, has been criticized, as they reinforce the spread of low-quality information. To reveal the bad practices that hinder the scientific process, many researchers in the world have used cunning means to test the integrity of several journals. Recently, an anonymous group mimicked the production of a scientific article related to COVID-19 and submitted it to one of the OMICS Group magazines. The absence of a peer review resulted in the publication of a scientific satire that united elements of Geek culture with messages of accusation to the group's predatory practices, in the body of the article itself [2]...