This work attempts to describe the current characteristics of the production of scientific knowledge as a social good produced in local and international settings. Discusses the idea of scientific periphery and center and resumes it in local settings. The product of research and the exercise of free thinking are basically displayed in academic and / or scientific publications that expose the tension between an universal science and a local science, and the asymmetry of scientific power. This unfolding of knowledge exists in the multiple platforms of today's society, such as academic and / or scientific publications that account for scientific production.