Open AccessLisura e credibilidade: termos irmanados da pesquisa científica
Author(s) -
Jefferson Petto,
Antônio Marcos Andrade,
Marvyn de Santana do Sacramento
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista brasileira de fisiologia do exercício/revista brasileira de fisiologia do exercício
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2675-1372
pISSN - 1677-8510
DOI - 10.33233/rbfex.v19i6.4525
Subject(s) - humanities , philosophy , covid-19 , psychology , medicine , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
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]...