Data regarding women in the academia are disquieting. In the United States, for example, women constitute half of those earning PhDs and, as of 2015, 51.5% of assistant professors; however, women are less likely to achieve tenure than men and represent only 32.4% of full professors (Cardel et al., 2020). Moreover, gender inequalities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)...

There is a consensus in the scientific community regarding the importance of the citations received, and for this reason the h-index is a factor commonly used throughout the world to evaluate the scientific quality of an author, since not only the quantity is important ( number of papers) but also quality (measurable impact in number of citations received).

However, parameters are rarely...

Background: The Covid-19 pandemic introduced new complicating factors for the process of scientific publication, such as an unprecedented volume of article submissions. These changes have a potential to significantly alter how scientific communication is done, thus demanding scrutiny. Objective: To assess how the scientific publication system responded to the challenges brought by the Covid-19...

The world of scientific publications has suffered a real earthquake in recent years.
Scientific publications were born in London in the XVII century with the aim of exchanging research work, which is finally known as sharing knowledge.
The first scientific publication was Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society created by the Society itself.
For many years, scientific journals were...