Abstract
Various public policies implemented over the last few decades, and particularly since the beginning of the century, contribute to the realization of an economic growth project at both European and global level. Their repercussions on the organization of the scientific landscape, the missions of teaching and research staff, and their activities, are visible. Questioning the purposes of scientific communication, the authors – based on a review of the literature, personal observations and experiences, and an analysis of data from a qualitative survey – place publication in its context with atypical values before reconsidering it as a mechanism for individual promotion. By enhancing the researcher's status, however, it places him in the consensus for the collective good, becoming a privileged means of his social integration.