The aim of this reflection article is to study the dynamics of production-power presented in the current academic publishing systems, based on the qualitative analysis of international models that determine the Colombian academic production. The approach to international investigative models and their national adaptation allows seeing how the academic output is limited by parameters that usually respond to a developed society who establish the categories of “truth” or “scientific quality”, compared to some other subjugated countries with a subordinate knowledge; to accost this, we define concepts raised by Michel Foucault, Marta Cabrera and Saurabh Dube, related to power structures in society. Finally, we study how SIRES, as Scopus and ISI, although they are of great importance for the knowledge society, are part of the structures that discredit us as producers of “truth” and, paradoxically, are the same from which we validate our research output.