Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: The purpose of a scientific journal is to communicate research results in a timely and reliable manner, and to provide its readers with new and relevant insights on different areas of knowledge.Publishing should be a service oriented to its readers rather than to promoting itself or the authors.It must strive for scientific integrity, accessibility, diversity, equity, inclusivity, and accountability, and decisions should be based on academic merit, regardless of the origin of the manuscript.Publishing a journal entails great responsibility and must be carried out with competence, commitment, responsibility, impartiality, and transparency.The selection of scientific articles that exhibit methodological flaws can lead to serious consequences, including patient death, due to the dissemination of biased, spurious or manipulated results.Current "publish or die" policy sometimes makes for researchers to incur unethical practices such as fragmentation of research results or self-citation.A biased or unsubstantiated editorial decision can affect a scientist's career, in favor or against.Publication of an investigation is not an isolated act by the author; it involves an extensive network of interlocutors that interact with each other as part of a system.For this reason, editorial processes must be carried out in a clear, systematic, transparent and efficient manner in order for everyone to understand and respect them.This guarantees their uniformity and continuity.
Source: Gaceta Médica de México
Authors: Ana C. Sepúlveda-Vildósola, Juan M. Abdo-Francis, Patricia Clark, Eduardo E. Montalvo-Javé, Raúl Carrillo-Esper
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4366725169