Prisoners of Our Own Traps

Abstract

In this paper the author develops several related ideas: the urgent need to know the disciplines bibliographic dimension, and its history and development; the lack of awareness of this dimension as a generator of misconceptions and contradictory attitudes, i.e., intellectual traps; the ongoing collision between the different roles represented by the researcher: author, editor, referee and recipient of the published literature. In Argentina, at least, the solutions could be anchored in our recognition of the social construction of scientific systems, also we must assume that, as part responsible, we could adapt or modify them to have a more human realistic scale, finally, to accept with humility and generosity the validity of other disciplinary realities, as respectable as that in which each of us research and work.