Scientific production and document curation

review and identification of trends

Abstract

This theoretical analysis of infoxication (overproduction of information) in academic fields is recognised as a problem arising from the excess of information and the difficulties in managing it. In order to address this issue, it is necessary to review the causes that generate infoxication, both those that have been widely studied and those that have emerged more recently. Among these, which have already been discussed in the literature, are scientific policies and subsidies that favour the publication of research results, as well as policies for the promotion of academic staff that also value the production of scientific publications. These and other factors are added to the proliferation of publications, which, in the absence of evaluation factors, have repercussions on scientific quality, but above all permeate the models of evaluation of the same; these models grant different criteria for the evaluation of quality, among which the bibliometric models; it is therefore necessary to identify these criteria and to examine the possible solutions that could have an impact on a possible solution to the lack of quality generated by the increase in production: The curation of scientific content, determined by the evaluation criteria that contribute to the creation of a model of curation of scientific production.