How to survive in the academic jungle? Protection strategies against predatory journals

Abstract

Science can be defined as a complex, self-organizing network that involves ideas, projects and articles.1 According to the dictionary, science is defined as the gathering of organized knowledge obtained by observation, research or by the demonstration of certain events, facts, and phenomena, being systematized through methods or in a rational way: the rules of the science.2 Science is, therefore, the constant pursuit for explanations and/or solutions through studies, reviews and reassessments of results obtained by the researchers. The aim of science is to get closer to the truth through methods that offer control, systematization and reproducibility when compared to non-scientific knowledge.