ReviewJournal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV2018
Problems and challenges of predatory journals.
Review in Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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
47 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Application of computer vision in assessing crop abiotic stress: A systematic review.PloS one · 2023Pooled it
- Checklists to detect potential predatory biomedical journals: a systematic review.BMC medicine · 2020Pooled it
- Effect of educational intervention on physicians and researchers' knowledge, practices and perceptions towards predatory journals: an interventional study.BMC medical education · 2026Trial
- Legislative and forensic applications of melissopalynology, the study of pollen in honey.Forensic science international. Synergy · 2026Article
- Physicians' and Pharmacists' Awareness, Exposure, and Perception Regarding Predatory Solicitations at a Mother-Child Teaching Hospital.The journal of pediatric pharmacology and therapeutics : JPPT : the official journal of PPAG · 2026Article
- How contemporary academic structures constrain scientific creativity and hold back early-career researchers.Nature human behaviour · 2026Review
- Predatory publishing lists: a systematic review.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2026Article
- Bridging gaps between scientific research and regulatory decision-making in Europe: roles of academia, risk assessors, and policymakers.Frontiers in toxicology · 2026Article
- Identifying common patterns in journals that retracted papers from paper mills: a cross-sectional study.Research integrity and peer review · 2025Article
- Estimating the predictability of questionable open-access journals.Science advances · 2025Article
- The crucial role and challenges of medical journal editors in the modern era.Journal of clinical orthopaedics and trauma · 2025Article
- Critical Contextual Empiricism for Busy People: Scientific Argumentation as Epistemic Exchange.Topoi : an international review of philosophy · 2025Article
- Special Issues: The roles of special issues in scholarly communication in a changing publishing landscape.Learned publishing : journal of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers · 2025Article
- Navigating the academic waters: Strategies to avoid predatory journals and publish in indexed journals.Journal of education and health promotion · 2025Review
- A mixed-methods survey and focus group study to understand researcher and clinician preferences for a Journal transparency Tool.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Decoding Correlations in Predatory Business Practices and Physicians' Strategies Against Daily Predatory Emails.Cureus · 2024Article
- Publishing in open access journals.Insights into imaging · 2024Article
- Nightmare of publishing hard worked research in predatory journal.Industrial psychiatry journal · 2024Article
- Do orthopaedics surgeons have any idea what predatory journals are?:(cross-sectional study).Heliyon · 2024Article
- [Predatory journals: What are they and how to avoid them?]Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The companies publishing predatory journals are an emerging problem in the area of scientific literature as they only seek to drain money from authors without providing any customer service for the authors or their readership. These predatory journals try to attract new submissions by aggressive email advertising and high acceptance rates. But in turn, they do not provide proper peer review, and therefore, the scientific quality of submitted articles is questionable. This is important because more and more people, including patients, are reading such journals and rely on the information they provide. Consequently, predatory journals are a serious threat to the integrity of medical science, and it is crucial for scientists, physicians and even patients to be aware of this problem. In this review, we briefly summarize the history of the open access movement, as well as the rise of and roles played by predatory journals. In conclusion, 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.
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Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.