Paolo Parra Saiani, University of Genoa; Fabrizio Martire, Sapienza, University of Rome -- Department of Communication and Social Research (CORIS); Silvia Cataldi, Sapienza, University of Rome -- Department of Social and Developmental Psycholoy
Posted: February 28, 2022 Accepted Languages: English/Inglés/Inglês, Spanish/Español/Espanhol, Portuguese/Portugués
In times of “neo-liberal scientism” (Daza: 2012) or ‘academic capitalism’ (Slaughter and Rhoades: 2004), the pressure for publication is increasing exponentially, opening a space for publishers seeking easy money and authors that want (just as easily) to increase their productivity. We all are receiving an avalanche of invitations for publications from publishers that were almost unknown by the scientific community (Cordeiro and Lima 2017), but that in recent years are getting a lot of popularity. A single Journal may publish – in just one year! – more than 10,000 articles, excluding special issues and similar. This a situation to the edge of a deviant behavior. Formally, no rule gets broken: scientists may publish their results respecting all the principles that methodology teaches us, sometimes the same scientist has a loose knowledge of the Journal in which he will publish, but sometimes publishing in such a Journal is the result of a conscious choice.
In times of ‘neo-liberal scientism’ or ‘academic capitalism’, what are the trends in science? Priority will be given to empirical works that analyze the development of scientists’ work (in the broad sense: biology, economics, political science, sociology, etc.), changes in the publishers’ policies.
