The set of surprises that this year 2020 presented, such as deaths and infections due to the pandemic, confinement and deconfinement with various modalities, improvised forms of virtuality in education, sliding of the cost of government technologies to the population, “alert” scenarios red" before medical care and more broadly, the application of regulations more demanding for the health of the population; all this makes us reflect on an aspect of academic work, that which corresponds to the publication scientific.