ReviewJournal of postgraduate medicine
Predatory journals: The rise of worthless biomedical science.
Review in Journal of postgraduate medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
What it found
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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
13 citing papers in PubMed, 54 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Validation of publication pressure questionnaire-revised into Chinese nurses from a university hospital.Nursing open · 2023Article
- "Dear Doctor, greetings of the day!": A 1-year observational study of presumed predatory journal invitations.Progress in orthodontics · 2023Article
- Predatory publications - Recognize and avoid.Indian journal of ophthalmology · 2021Article
- Predatory publishing solicitation: a review of a single surgeon's inbox and implications for information technology resources at an organizational level.Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie · 2021Article
- Predatory Journals, Fake Conferences and Misleading Social Media: The Dark Side of Medical Information.Zdravstveno varstvo · 2021Article
- Evidence-based Medicine Simulation: A Novel and Practice-relevant Approach to Teaching Real-time Literature Searching to Emergency Medicine Residents.AEM education and training · 2020Article
- Predatory Publishers/Journals in Medical Sciences: How to Avoid, Stop, and What to Do after Being Scammed by Them?Journal of gastrointestinal cancer · 2020Review
- Open access publishing in gastroenterology: good for the researcher and good for the public!Frontline gastroenterology · 2020Article
- Journal of Postgraduate Medicine 2016-2020: The editor's report.Journal of postgraduate medicineArticle
- Predatory journals- Can we stem the rot?Journal of postgraduate medicineArticle
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
In today's world when biomedical science is experiencing continuous threats from various sources, publication of research articles in predatory journals has created a major havoc. These predatory journals are publishing worthless biomedical science which will haunt genuine researchers and keen readers of authentic biomedical journals for several decades. Hence, researchers of various disciplines and academic experience should be continuously made aware of these predatory publishers and potential ways to recognize them. The main aim of this article is to discuss the issues related to predatory publishing, techniques and strategies used by these publishers to prey young inexperienced researchers, and disadvantages of publishing in predatory journals.
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