O impacto dos periódicos predatórios nos estudos científicos em Química

Abstract

Over the years and technological advances, scientific journals also had to evolve and began to be published in the digital version. In 2002 in Budapest there was a meeting between academics, scientists and librarians to discuss the future of science dissemination. This meeting was considered the milestone of the “Open Access” movement, which in Portuguese means free access or open access, generating a significant increase in new journals. With this movement, many journals took the opportunity to enter the scientific environment with titles similar to those of journals with scientific recognition, but basically aiming at profit, offering publication facilities without meeting basic criteria such as peer review, providing greater agility in publication and by paying the fees, all submitted scientific articles are being published. These journals and/or scientific journals are recognized with the term predatory. Considering the growth of predatory publications and the risks of substantiate new research, it is important to identify these journals. Given this information, the work aimed to point out the predatory journals listed in the last decade for the area of knowledge in Chemistry and thus evaluate their impact on scientific society. For this, an exploratory research was carried out presenting points that identify predatory journals according to the recommendation of the widely disseminated technique known as ThinkCheckSubmit and with consultations in predatory lists such as Beall's list and Stop Predatory Journal. Considering the classification data base provided by Qualis/Sucupira between 2010 and 2016 and the unofficial base provided by UFRN. With the consolidation of the results, six predatory journals were identified, of which only one was Brazilian. Most authors who published articles in these journals have a title doctorate in the year 2022, according to a survey carried out in the Curriculum Lattes/CNPQ tool. When evaluating the impact of citations from these predatory journals on the scientific citation indexing platforms Google Scholar, Scopus/Elsevier and JCR/Clarivate, 30,594, 34,975 and 8,275 citations were obtained, respectively.