Editorial Note

Scientific production as a form of knowledge circulation

Abstract

It is a common question in academic cloisters: why publish? What are the real objectives of scientific production? Is there a real interest in being read? Do we produce simply to obtain points in a host of records?

All these questions are not born strictly from the profession of research, who investigates does it mobilized by curiosity and commitment to an epistemological journey, but it is often the scientific and university system with its career format that forces us to pursue the times of publication and make this episode a must.

The interest of the scientific system in general that the investigations of those who compose it circulate is understandable, as is the question of why. Within this framework, this magazine tries to interpret these questions with the needs that accompany them.

We propose an open journal, which meets the technical characteristics to carry out publications but also allows dialogue between the parties. With each proposal we receive, we initiate a dialogue with its authors, so that the opinion is not only the visible face of the editorial team, but also that we are concerned because its publication in this magazine has a specific meaning.

For Scientia Interfluvius, the meaning is that the classrooms of the Autonomous University of Entre Ríos are populated with contributions from researchers who encourage debate, that teachers and students ask questions based on their reading, that challenges and provokes, because in definitive are those episodes of doubts, critical glances and provocation those who encourage the profession of research.

Publishing is not a formality, it is exposing to another, times of work, views on a subject that, ultimately, represent views on life. Both the reading exercise and the writing exercise represent a kind of conversation between the writer and the reader. Publishing is opening up that conversation to multiple interlocutors.