EDITORIAL

For several decades, innumerous appeals and reflections on how to build the nursing science and achieve vi-sibility in the scientific world led researchers to make efforts to produce knowledge that contributed to the well--being of people, improving their quality of life, relieving their suffering and transforming the reality in which we live. In addition to knowledge production, it was necessary to invest in its dissemination, so that knowledge could be shared, promoting dialogue among peers and transforming the practice. With the use of scales to assess the quality of knowledge production, the scientific community realized that only publishing was not enough; it was necessary that researchers consume the knowledge generated by other researchers, quoting them and dialoguing with the results of other research through their papers. The emergence of electronic databases represented a great facilitator for searching intellectual production and for interaction among national and international researchers. However, there are new databases every day, which increasingly impose more stringent quality standards that must be met for the permanence of journals in these bases. This has required more stringent criteria for accepting articles for publication, the intensification of principles and foundations for scientific writing(1) and a concern to ensure the scientific integrity of publications. Despite scientific efforts by researchers to ensure more ethically and scientifically qualified publications and the speed of dissemination of research, it is not possible to ensure that other researchers and practicing profes