Abstract Over the past several decades, there has been an increasing interest in academic discourse investigations with a specific focus on disciplinary, cultural, and generic aspects of text construction. Studies Spanish, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, French, German, Russian (inter alia) have revealed not only universal features characteristic many writing cultures, but also unique rhetorical fe...

The objective of this article is to analyze the distinctive characteristics research production in field communication Latin American scientific journals. Meta-research necessary because it allows re-evaluating and offers new horizons knowledge production. Two studies were conducted: 1) Bibliometric analysis 116 journals eight databases 24 publications Web Science Scopus; 2) Content including t...

Purpose To reconsider open access and its relation to issues of “development” by highlighting the ties the open access movement has with the hegemonic discourse of development and to question some of the assumptions about science and scientific communication upon which the open access debates are based. To bring out the conflict arising from the convergence of the hegemonic discourses of scienc...

Standards and Good Practice guidelines provide explicit criteria for maintaining quality and integrity in science. But research practices are now openly questioned. I defend the idea that the tension between norms and practices in scientific writing must be addressed primarily by the scientific community if quality of the sources in the process of science communication is to be guaranteed. This...