Della-Sala Sergio
University of Edinburgh, Human Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychology, Edinburgh, UK.
Dement Neuropsychol. 2022 Apr-Jun;16(2):129-134. doi: 10.1590/1980-5764-DN-2022-V001. Epub 2022 May 13.
Science and science reporting are under threat. Knowingly or not, researchers and clinicians are part of this debacle. This is not due so much to the notorious replication crisis, as to our acceptance of lowering common morality for personal gains, including the widespread, deprecable phenomenon of predatory publishing. Rather than fiercefully countering this loathsome practice, academics are accepting, often supporting a masquerade solution: paying several thousand dollars to publish for all their own papers. This new policy will create a disparity across richer and poorer disciplines; will result in concentrating even more in the hands of large, rich, Western institutions, also penalising younger researchers; will kill observational studies and exploratory research; and will make disseminating science depending more on finances than on quality. This article calls for the full awareness of the academic community on the risks of the current situation in scientific publishing.
科学及科学报道正受到威胁。无论有意与否，研究人员和临床医生都是这场灾难的一部分。这与其说是由于臭名昭著的复制危机，不如说是因为我们为了个人利益而接受降低共同道德标准，包括普遍存在的、应受谴责的掠夺性出版现象。学者们不是坚决抵制这种令人厌恶的做法，而是接受，甚至常常支持一种伪装的解决方案：为自己所有的论文支付数千美元来发表。这项新政策将在贫富学科之间造成差距；将导致更多资源集中在大型、富裕的西方机构手中，同时也会惩罚年轻研究人员；将扼杀观察性研究和探索性研究；并将使科学传播更多地取决于资金而非质量。本文呼吁学术界充分认识到科学出版当前形势的风险。
