其他摘要:Nature magazine published an article about “predatory journals” to warn the scientific community about fraudulent activities in editorials that charge fees for publishing scientific articles without a proper peer review process. This represents an objectionable way for increasing individual academic production. We called these magazines as a “group of illicit open access journals” or grial. In Mexico, the impacts of the grial are contaminating the internal evaluation systems of the academic and scientific research institutions, and creating low quality currículum vítae . We believe an appropriate strategy to counteract such effects is by reassessing and updating current criteria to allocate academic incentives and by hiring new research staff.