{"id":2400,"date":"2024-07-24T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2024-12-19T15:51:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T18:51:16","slug":"mioc-and-reflections-on-the-current-model-and-the-future-of-scientific-journals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/2024\/07\/24\/mioc-and-reflections-on-the-current-model-and-the-future-of-scientific-journals\/","title":{"rendered":"115 years of Mem\u00f3rias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz<\/em>, reflections on the current model and the future of scientific journals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Claudia Jurberg, Journalist and Social Media Editor of Mem\u00f3rias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Oswaldo Cruz Institute\/Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The journal <\/span>Mem\u00f3rias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz<\/span><\/i> is celebrating 115 years of scientific publishing and its editors are reflecting, on the one hand, on their pride in belonging to a small and \u201chighly selective\u201d group of international scientific journals that is celebrating more than a century of editorial activity; and on the other, on how to survive in the face of a scenario of large publishing houses, the emergence of \u201cmoney-hungry\u201d publishers, and the practice of destroying the credibility of science.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the editorial <\/span>Mem\u00f3rias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz<\/span><\/i> celebrates 115 years of scientific publishing: what it needs to keep moving on…<\/span><\/a> Adeilton Brand\u00e3o and Ana Carolina Vicente point out that, in this new world, the scientific article is no longer a standardized type of letter, transmitting research results, but a \u201cproduct\u201d that must be accounted for and measured as goals to be met in order for a researcher to be funded and promoted. There is still the transmission of research results in a standard format, but the content of the article is not the essence that should be appreciated by readers. On the contrary, the journal in which it is published is the most important part of the equation. As a product that indicates performance, quantity matters first, followed by the quality and the journal impact.<\/span><\/p>\n

Scientometrics has matured, and for journals like <\/span>Mem\u00f3rias do IOC<\/span><\/i>, which are still seen as \u201cinstitutional\u201d, those that publish local, regional research results from peripheral scientific countries were kind of a nightmare.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The \u201cbest\u201d papers are not sent to these journals as a first option, creating a \u201cvicious\u201d publishing cycle: neither relevant research reports nor articles that are key to science are published by these journals and, consequently, they will not collect citations \u2013 another important metric of 20<\/span>th<\/span> century science.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this way, its \u201cprestige\u201d is reduced with each evaluation cycle. In other words, if a journal only publishes research papers that are not relevant, it will be an irrelevant journal. How can this barrier to self-reproduction be overcome if researchers are reluctant to send their \u201cbest\u201d articles to a \u201cnon-prestigious\u201d journal?<\/span><\/p>\n

The answer to this question is open, solutions have been proposed, but none of them tell how to get rid of the powerful incentives that force (or encourage) researchers towards the \u201cprestigious\u201d journal.<\/span><\/p>\n

To rephrase the question: how do you become a \u201cprestigious\u201d journal? Or, more fundamentally, what is \u201cprestige\u201d for science?<\/span><\/p>\n

References<\/span><\/h3>\n

BEALL, J. Predatory publishers are corrupting open access. <\/span>Nature <\/span><\/i>[online]. 2012, vol.\u00a0 489, no. 7415, pp. 179 [viewed 24 July 2024]. <\/span>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/489179a<\/span><\/a>. Available from: <\/span>https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/489179a<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

BRADSHAW, C.J. and BROOK, B.W. How to rank journals. <\/span>PLoS One <\/span><\/i>[online]. 2016, vol. 11, no. 3, e0149852 [viewed 24 July 2024]. <\/span>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0149852<\/span><\/a>. Available from: <\/span>https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0149852<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

LEMOS, A.A.B. An\u00e1lise cr\u00edtica de uma revista institucional: as\u00a0<\/span>Mem\u00f3rias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz<\/span>. <\/span>Cad. Sa\u00fade P\u00fablica<\/span><\/i> [viewed 24 July 2024]. 1993, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 161-9 [viewed 24 July 2024]. <\/span>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1590\/S0102-311X1993000200007<\/span><\/a>. Available from: <\/span>https:\/\/www.scielo.br\/j\/csp\/a\/JX8xT3gVqQDPRf4jsHMwnVk\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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BRAND\u00c3O, A.A. and VICENTE, A.C.P. Mem\u00f3rias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz celebrates 115 years of scientific publishing: what it needs to keep moving on\u2026. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz <\/em>[online]. 2024, vol. 119, e240003 [viewed 24 July 2024]. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1590\/0074-02760240003<\/a>. Available from: https:\/\/www.scielo.br\/j\/mioc\/a\/tHvtBmDzFY5R3MqrYBMZQYC\/<\/a><\/p>\n

External links<\/h3>\n

Mem\u00f3rias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz \u2013 SciELO: https:\/\/www.scielo.br\/mioc\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Mem\u00f3rias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz \u2013 MIOC: https:\/\/memorias.ioc.fiocruz.br<\/a><\/p>\n

Mem\u00f3rias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz \u2013 Social Media: Facebook<\/a> | Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reflections on the current scenario of large publishers, the emergence of \u201cmoney-hungry\u201d publishers and qualified journals that do not charge for publication and that try to survive in the face of a scientific model that values metrics in a vicious cycle for researchers, institutions, journals and funding agencies alike. …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":615,"featured_media":2403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,225,12],"tags":[191,226],"class_list":["post-2400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biological-sciences","category-mioc","category-press-releases","tag-medicine","tag-memorias-do-instituto-oswaldo-cruz"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2407,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions\/2407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}