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Más de 130 organizaciones del mundo respaldan hoy el Plan de Acción de @ScienceEurope para las revistas AA diamante (que no cobran a lectores ni autores). “Este apoyo es bienvenido, pero se necesita más” dice @juancommander de @pkp. Necesitamos poner este tema en agenda.
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1/7 A pesar de este gran apoyo internacional al modelo de publicación #diamond #openaccess, gobiernos, universidades y parte de la comunidad científica de América Latina siguen considerando que publicar en revistas con altos #APCs es el mayor logro al que pueden aspirar.
2/7 Y lo hacen sabiendo que estas prácticas resultan dañinas para el ecosistema global de las ciencias y altamente destructivas para el ecosistema científico latinoamericano. Pasa a ser más importante dónde se publica que qué se investiga y qué se publica.
As a physician, I'm feeling pretty sad today, in a way I've never felt before. I'll share here because there may be value to me or to others. 1/5
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This week I have been accidentally hearing and witnessing multiple experiences of my friends who are being verbally assaulted, threatened, and intimidated by COVID patients and their families for not buying into the conspiracy theories related to the disease. 2/5
Last year, sick patients were scared and grateful. Now some come to the hospital angry and with an agenda. It's a tough place to be as a doc: caught between our desire to help the patients and our obligation to not knowingly give them a harmful treatment. 3/5
Update. Publishers may choose English because it's a lingua franca for science, intelligible to a larger audience. Or they may do it to increase their #JIF. (And of course the two motives may be related.) Research from Brazil.
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Update. Confirmation that writing outside your native language (unless you are extremely proficient) triggers linguistic bias from native speakers.
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1/ Update. Most email solicitations from predatory journals use weak English. This study confirms my experience.
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