"FakeBooks"--predatory journals: The dark side of publishing.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

1. An Analysis of Solicitations From Predatory Journals in Ophthalmology.American journal of ophthalmology · 2024
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2. Avoiding predatory publishing for early-career ophthalmologists.Indian journal of ophthalmology · 2021
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3. Predatory Publishing - Experience with OMICS International.Medical archives (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) · 2017
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4. Manuscript Submission Invitations from 'Predatory Journals': What Should Authors Do?Journal of Korean medical science · 2017
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5. Salami publishing: Walking on thin (sl)ice.Indian journal of ophthalmology · 2016
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6. Pandemic of Publications and Predatory Journals: Another Nail in the Coffin of Academics.Indian journal of community medicine : official publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social Medicine
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Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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