Introduction:

Information and communication technologies have provided new ways of publishing scientific achievement through user-friendly digital platforms.

Objective:

To assess the influence of the consumer society mechanisms on the use of the Open Access journals in the current conditions of underdeveloped countries.

Method:

It was assumed the dialectical materialist method as general method, particularly, it was used the literature review to develop a critical-reflexive analysis of the content related to the subject matter. Various doctorate thesis, original articles, review articles and editorials published between 2010 and 2021 were taken into account. The search was conducted in the SciELO and Google Scholar databases in June 2021; the keywords used were: "journals", "open access" and "information and communication technologies".

Results:

Aspects related to the topic were analyzed, among them: the concept of Open Access, knowledge geopolitics and its influence on researchers from the South; the risk of placing articles in a predatory journal was warned.

Conclusions:

Publishing in Open Access journals can be a thorny path due to the lack of Open Access platform management and scientific article writing skills; due to the geopolitics on the knowledge and the limitations usually imposed by the world of editorial commoditization; including the risk of being deceived by predatory, mega-predatory and hijacking journals.

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