The Beauty and Importance of Scientific Journals
Abstract For more than 300 years, academic journals have been the main means of communication in all disciplines to disseminate scientific discoveries and advances, both theoretical and methodological, through scientific article, since they have covered all the functions of knowledge generation. Writing articles is the highlight of the research process and through it we not only share ideas and foster the spirit of free and cooperative exchange of information, but also fuel the process of self-correction that makes science powerful. To be shared with the community, articles must go through a process of attribution of authorship, certification of validity, dissemination, distribution and archiving of knowledge. Throughout history, scientific journals have gone through different stages and through different problems inherent to the editorial process. In this essay on scientific publications, we will reflect on the nature of publications, their importance and usefulness both social and economic, their less luminous side as well as their role, as a systemic and almost irreplaceable mechanism, in the generation and transmission of scientific culture, of our knowledge and understanding about the world and about ourselves.
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Medawar, Peter (2013). TConsejos a un joven científico. Fondo de Cultura Económica.
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Sarewitz, Daniel. (2016). The pressure to publish pushes down quality. Nature, 533(7602), 147-147. 10.1038/533147a
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Schieffelin, Bambi. B., Woolard, Kathryn. A., & Kroskrity, Paul V. (2012). Ideologías lingüísticas: práctica y teoría. Catarata.
Swales, John. (2013). Research genres. Explorations and applications. Nueva York: Cambridge University Press.
Vrielink, Jogachum, Lemmens, Paul, & Parmentier, Stephan. (2011). Academic freedom as a fundamental right. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 13, 117-141. 10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.03.009
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Alzate, José A. (1980). Obras I. Periódicos: Diario literario de México; Asuntos varios sobre ciencias y artes; Observaciones sobre la física, historia natural y artes útiles. Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, UNAM.
Alzate, José A. (1985). Memorias y ensayos. UNAM
Arana-Barbier, Pablo José. (2023). The Relationship Between Scientific Production and Economic Growth Through R&D Investment: A Bibliometric Approach. Journal of Scientometric Research, 12(3), 596-602. 10.5530/jscires.12.3.057
Bajtín, Mihail Mihajlovič (1979). Estética de la creación verbal. Madrid: Siglo XXI.
Bartolache, José Ignacio. (1993). Mercurio volante. UNAM. (Trabajo original publicado en 1772 a 1773).
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Bazerman, Charles. (1988). Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press.
Becher, Tony. (2001). Tribus y territorios académicos: la indagación intelectual y las culturas de las disciplinas. Barcelona: Gedisa.
Bernal, John D. (1989). La ciencia en la historia. Nueva Imagen – UNAM.
Bunge, Mario. (1998). Ciencia, técnica y desarrollo. Buenos Aires: Editorial Hermes.
Cassany Daniel, López Carmen & Martí Jaume. (2000). Divulgación del discurso científico: La transformación de redes conceptuales. Hipótesis, modelo y estrategias. Discurso y sociedad, 2(2), 73–103.
Carrell Douglas T. & Rajpert-De Meyts Ewa. (2013). Meaningful peer review is integral to quality science and should provide benefits to the authors and reviewers alike. Andrology 1, 531–532. 10.1111/j.2047-2927.2013.00105.x
Carrell, Douglas T., & Simoni, Manuela. (2018). Easier ways to get a publication’: the problem of low-quality scientific publications. Andrology, 6(1), 1-2. 10.1111/andr.12460
Cetina, Karin K. (1999). Epistemic cultures: How the sciences make knowledge. Harvard University press.
Charles, Maggie, Pecorari, Diane, & Hunston, Susan. (2009). Introduction: Exploring the interface between corpus linguistics and discourse analysis. En: Charles, M., Pecorari, D., & Hunston, S. (Eds). Academic writing. At the interface of corpus and discourse, (1-13). Continuum International Publishing Group.
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Coccia, Mario. (2018). Socioeconomic driving forces of scientific research. arXiv preprint. 10.48550/arXiv.1806.05028
Coccia, Mario, & Wang, Lili. (2016). Evolution and convergence of the patterns of international scientific collaboration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(8), 2057-2061. 10.1073/pnas.1510820113
Curcic, Dimitrije. (2023). Number of Academic Papers Published Per Year. Recuperado el 27 de marzo de 2024 de: https://wordsrated.com/number-of-academic-papers-published-per-year/
Eger, Thomas, & Scheufen, Marc. (2021). Economic perspectives on the future of academic publishing: Introduction to the special issue. Managerial and Decision Economics, 42(8), 1922-1932. 10.1002/mde.3454
Forgues, Bernard, & Liarte, Sebastien. (2013). Academic publishing: Past and future. M@ n@ gement, (5), 739-756. 10.3917/mana.165.0739
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Fyfe, Aileen, Coate, Kelly, Curry, Stephen, Lawson, Stuart, Moxham, Noah, & Røstvik, Camille M. (2017). Untangling academic publishing: A history of the relationship between commercial interests, academic prestige and the circulation of research. Discussion Paper. University of St Andrews. Recuperado el 27 de marzo de 2024 de: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/19148/
Fyfe, Aileen, McDougall-Waters, Julie, & Moxham, Noah. (2015a). 350 years of scientific periodicals. Notes and Records: The Royal Society journal of the history of science, 69(3), 227-239. 10.1098/rsnr.2015.0036
Fyfe, Aileen, Moxham, N., McDougall-Waters, Julie. & Røstvik, Camilla M. (2015b). A History of Scientific Journals. UCL Press.
Giddens, Anthony. (1997). Política, sociología y teoría social. Paidós. Barcelona, España.
Gonzalez-Brambila, Claudia N., Reyes-Gonzalez, Leonardo, Veloso, Francisco, & Perez-Angón, Miguel A. (2016). The scientific impact of developing nations. PLoS One, 11(3), e0151328. 10.1371/journal.pone.0151328
Gross, Alan G., Harmon, Joseph E., & Reidy, Michael S. (2002). Communicating science: The scientific article from the 17th century to the present. Oxford University Press.
Holmes, Jasaper, & Nesi, Hilary. (2009). Verbal and mental processes in academic disciplines. En: Charles, M., Pecorari, D., & Hunston, S. (Eds). Academic writing. At the interface of corpus and discourse, (58-72). Continuum International Publishing Group.
Hyland, Ken. (2000). Disciplinary discourses: social interactions in academic writing. UK, Harlow: Longman.
Larivière, Vincent, Haustein, Stefanie, & Mongeon, Philippe. (2015). The oligopoly of academic publishers in the digital era. PloS One, 10(6), e0127502. 10.1371/journal.pone.0127502
López-Riquelme, Germán O. (2021). La necesidad de la libertad. Ludus vitalis, 29(55), 149-153.
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Martinson, Brian C. (2017). Give researchers a lifetime word limit. Nature, 550(7676), 303-303. 10.1038/550303a
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Meadows, Arthur J. (1985). The scientific paper as an archaeological artefact. Journal of information science, 11(1), 27-30. 10.1177/016555158501100104
Medawar, Peter (2013). TConsejos a un joven científico. Fondo de Cultura Económica.
Meneghini, Rogerio, Packer, Abel L. & Nassi-Calo, Lilian. (2008). Articles by latin american authors in prestigious journals have fewer citation. PLoS One, 3: e3804. 8. 10.1371/journal.pone.0003804
Merton, Robert K. (1973). The sociology of science. Theoretical and empirical investigations. The University of Chicago press.
Myers, Greg. (1997). Texts as Knowledge Claims: The Social Construction of Two Biology Articles. En: Harris, R. A. (coord.) Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science. Case Studies. Mahwah (New Jersey): Lawrence Erlbaum. pp. 169-186.
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Phelps, Richard. (2022). Challenging the Academic Publisher Oligopoly Technological and political changes may liberate scientific research. Recuperado el 27 de marzo de 2024 de https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2022/11/challenging-the-academic-publisher-oligopoly/
Prettner, Klaus, & Werner, Katharina. (2016). Why it pays off to pay us well: The impact of basic research on economic growth and welfare. Research Policy, 45(5), 1075-1090. 10.1016/j.respol.2016.03.001
Rodríguez-Navarro, Alonso, & Brito, Ricardo. (2022). The link between countries’ economic and scientific wealth has a complex dependence on technological activity and research policy. Scientometrics, 127(5), 2871-2896. 10.1007/s11192-022-04313-w
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Rull, Valenti. (2016). Free science under threat: The current revival of Bernalism and the use of market‐based scientific practices are undermining science as we know it. EMBO Reports, 17(2), 131-135.
Samuelson, Larry. (2016). Game theory in economics and beyond. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 30(4), 107-130. 10.1257/jep.30.4.107
Sarewitz, Daniel. (2016). The pressure to publish pushes down quality. Nature, 533(7602), 147-147. 10.1038/533147a
Snow, Charles P.. (2006). Las dos culturas (Vol. 29). UNAM.
Schieffelin, Bambi. B., Woolard, Kathryn. A., & Kroskrity, Paul V. (2012). Ideologías lingüísticas: práctica y teoría. Catarata.
Swales, John. (2013). Research genres. Explorations and applications. Nueva York: Cambridge University Press.
Vrielink, Jogachum, Lemmens, Paul, & Parmentier, Stephan. (2011). Academic freedom as a fundamental right. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 13, 117-141. 10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.03.009
Walport, Mark J. (2003). Economic Analysis of Scientific Research Publishing – A Report Commissioned by the Welcome Trust. SQW Limited Enterprise House. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/e9edrgbv
Weingart, Peter. (2010). A short history of knowledge formations. En: Frodeman, R., Thompson-Klein, J., Mitcham, C. & Holbrock, J.B. (Edits) The Oxford handbook of interdisciplinarity, (2010) (3-14). Oxford Universiti press. New York, USA.
Zarif, Azmaeen. (2023). Focus: Climate Change and Environmental Health: The Economics of Scientific Publishing. The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 96(2), 267. 10.59249/OMSP9618
Lopez Riquelme, G. O., Solís-Chagoyán, H., Castillo Padilla, D. V., & Rosanía-Maza, N. A. (2024). The Beauty and Importance of Scientific Journals. ArtefaCToS. Revista De Estudios Sobre La Ciencia Y La tecnología, 13(2), 27–54. https://doi.org/10.14201/art2024.32052
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