Investigating journals: The dark side of publishing
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This article is published in Nature.The article was published on 2013-03-28 and is currently open access. It has received 273 citations till now.read more
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'Predatory' open access: a longitudinal study of article volumes and market characteristics.
Cenyu Shen,Bo-Christer Björk +1 more
TL;DR: Despite a total number of journals and publishing volumes comparable to respectable open access journals, the problem of predatory open access seems highly contained to just a few countries, where the academic evaluation practices strongly favor international publication, but without further quality checks.
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Potential predatory and legitimate biomedical journals: can you tell the difference? A cross-sectional comparison.
Larissa Shamseer,Larissa Shamseer,David Moher,David Moher,onyi maduekwe,Lucy Turner,Virginia Barbour,Rebecca Burch,Jocalyn Clark,James Galipeau,Jason R Roberts,Beverley Shea +11 more
TL;DR: 13 evidence-based characteristics by which predatory journals may potentially be distinguished from presumed legitimate journals are identified may be useful for authors who are assessing journals for possible submission or for others, such as universities evaluating candidates’ publications as part of the hiring process.
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Predatory journals: Who publishes in them and why?
TL;DR: The results indicate that the majority of PFJs are located in developing countries and the greatest number of researchers who published are from India, Nigeria, and Turkey, suggesting that most of the publications inPFJs are submitted by researchers in developing nations.
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The false academy: predatory publishing in science and bioethics.
Stefan Eriksson,Gert Helgesson +1 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that predatory publishing is a growing phenomenon that has the potential to greatly affect both bioethics and science at large and what can be done to eliminate or reduce the effects of this development.
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Problems and challenges of predatory journals.
TL;DR: Young and inexperienced authors publishing in a predatory journal must be aware of the damage of their reputation, of inadequate peer review processes and that unprofitable journals might get closed and all published articles in that journal might be lost.