The Avalanche of Data in the practice and communication of science: risks and uncertainties
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Big Data, scientific publishing, peer-review, science middle classes, reflectionAbstract
The new era of Big Data in which we are immersed opens the way to new opportunities, but also to new risks and uncertainties. In the field of science and its communication, the massive accumulation of data associated with Big Data is becoming one of the great challenges and one of the main risks for the progress of scientific activity itself. The hyperinflation of scientific publications, the increasing power of decision of the editors when determining what to publish and what not to publish, the punishment of the middle classes of science in moments of economic uncertainty and the absence of the necessary time for reflection are some of the evils that afflict contemporary science in this era of Big Data. In this article, I reflect on all this by establishing a critique that is urgently needed of the present work of scientists.Downloads
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