Background:

Predatory journals are pseudoscientific journals that charge to publish with non-existent double-blind peer review and editor’s review, corrections, and indexing of questionable quality. Such journals threaten the scientific landscape. Reflecting on their impact through Aristotle’s ethics and science conceptual frameworks helps to explore integrity in nursing research.

Objective:

To reflect about predatory publications in the production of knowledge of the nurse researchers.

Main topics under analysis:

This is a reflective analysis after a seven-step literature review. The analysis linked the topics of academic productivism and predatory journals with concepts such as intemperance, desire, intuitive reason and practical wisdom expressed by Aristotle in his book “From Ethics to Nicomachean”. These were discussed as a deformity of the concepts of true knowledge and middle ground.

Conclusion:

Practical wisdom can be a valuable path for good deliberation that guides integrity. It does not represent scientific knowledge itself but rather operates on it and the results of research and their dissemination in reliable journals.

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