The impact culture in the Spanish university and the privatization of public knowledge
Abstract
The scientific community in our country is suffering great pressure to transform rigorous research into a mad race of “impact culture and citation” in order to be valued and promoted. The fundamental reason is that this system has assumed the thesis that the impact factor (paper’s citations average per year) defines the scientific value of articles and journals.
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