Cadernos de Linguística (CadLin) has joined the group of journals and organizations that endorse the Stockholm Declaration, an international document aimed at reforming scholarly publishing.
Published by Bernhard Sabel and Dan Larhammar in Royal Society Open Science, the Declaration proposes actions to address problems that affect trust in science, including fraudulent publications, artificial mass production of articles, excessive charges for open access, and the misuse of metrics in academic evaluation. The document organizes its call around four fronts: returning control of scholarly publishing to academia; valuing quality over quantity; creating independent ways to prevent and detect fraud; and strengthening public policies to protect scientific integrity.
For CadLin, endorsing the Stockholm Declaration gives international visibility to principles that already guide the journal. Published by the Brazilian Linguistics Association (Abralin), CadLin operates under a diamond open access model: authors do not pay to submit or publish, and readers do not pay to access the articles. This model treats scholarly publishing as a public good, free from commercial interests.
The journal also preserves authors’ rights, adopts open licences, publishes in multiple languages, and supports more transparent forms of scientific evaluation. Its editorial practices include open peer review, publication of public review reports and author responses, encouragement of preprint deposits, required statements on data, materials and code, as well as the publication of protocols, registered reports and reproducibility studies.
These practices bring CadLin close to a model of scholarly communication in which knowledge circulates openly, can be checked, and remains under the control of the research community. Rather than treating articles as items to be counted in academic records, the journal seeks to support work evaluated by its content, documentation and contribution to scientific debate.
The endorsement of the Stockholm Declaration also reinforces CadLin’s commitment to editorial integrity. The journal maintains policies to address plagiarism, duplicate publication, citation manipulation, authorship problems, improper use of artificial intelligence and other forms of misconduct. The Declaration draws attention to the growth of large-scale editorial fraud, including articles fabricated by paper mills and practices that exploit pressure to publish. This scenario requires coordinated action from journals, scholarly associations, universities, libraries, funders and governments.
By signing the Stockholm Declaration, CadLin reaffirms its position in favour of open, multilingual, non-profit scholarly publishing guided by the research community. This step is in line with the journal’s mission and with Abralin’s work in support of a more transparent, accessible and responsible science.
