ArticleScience and engineering ethics2018
Predatory Journals Spamming for Publications: What Should Researchers Do?
Article in Science and engineering ethics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- A Toolkit for Detecting Fallacious Calls for Papers from Potential Predatory Journals.Advanced pharmaceutical bulletin · 2023Article
- An open automation system for predatory journal detection.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Highly cited forensic practitioners in the discipline legal and forensic medicine and the importance of peer-review and publication for admission of expert testimony.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2022Article
- Letter to the editor: Citations from predatory journals must be discouraged and how to identify predatory journals and publishers.Irish journal of medical science · 2021Article
- Predatory Publishers/Journals in Medical Sciences: How to Avoid, Stop, and What to Do after Being Scammed by Them?Journal of gastrointestinal cancer · 2020Review
- Fast Review Process in Established Journals is Not a Flaw.Science and engineering ethics · 2019Article
- A cross-sectional study of predatory publishing emails received by career development grant awardees.BMJ open · 2019Article
- Revisiting the Term Predatory Open Access Publishing.Journal of Korean medical science · 2019Article
- More than black and white of scientific publishing.Rheumatology international · 2018Article
- Scrutinizing predator journals in pharmacology and calculating their predatory rate.Indian journal of pharmacologyArticle
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Abstract
In the internet era spam has become a big problem. Researchers are troubled with unsolicited or bulk spam emails inviting them to publish. However, this strategy has helped predatory journals hunt their prey and earn money. These journals have grown tremendously during the past few years despite serious efforts by researchers and scholarly organizations to hinder their growth. Predatory journals and publishers are often based in developing countries, and they potentially target researchers from these counties by using different tactics identified in previous research. In response to the spread of predatory publishing, scientists are trying to develop criteria and guidelines to help avoid them-for example, the recently reported "predatory rate". This article attempts to (a) highlight the strategies used by predatory journals to convince researchers to publish with them, (b) report their article processing charges, (c) note their presence in Jeffrey Beall's List of Predatory Publishers, (d) rank them based on the predatory rate, and (e) put forward suggestions for junior researchers (especially in developing counties), who are the most likely targets of predatory journals.
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