ReviewAnnals of global health2018
Negative Effects of "Predatory" Journals on Global Health Research.
Review in Annals of global health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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.
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Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Using COVID-19 Pandemic as a Prism: A Systematic Review of Methodological Approaches and the Quality of Empirical Studies on Physical Activity Behavior Change.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2022Pooled it
- Is it worth publishing Open Access? - the scientific impact of Open Access publications in the field of medical education.Medical education online · 2026Article
- Do orthopaedics surgeons have any idea what predatory journals are?:(cross-sectional study).Heliyon · 2024Article
- Diagnosis Unreliability of ChatGPT for Journal Evaluation.Advanced pharmaceutical bulletin · 2024Article
- Predatory publishing in medical education: a rapid scoping review.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- A Toolkit for Detecting Fallacious Calls for Papers from Potential Predatory Journals.Advanced pharmaceutical bulletin · 2023Article
- Global Health Perspectives on Race in Research: Neocolonial Extraction and Local Marginalization.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- Effect of an educational intervention on the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of healthcare workers at King Hussein Cancer Center towards predatory publishers.BMC medical education · 2023Article
- An online global survey and follow-up expert groups on the scope and needs related to training, research, and mentorship among early-career addiction medicine professionals.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2023Article
- Factors Affecting the Use of Medical Articles for Citation and Academic Reference.Advances in medical education and practice · 2022Article
- Practical Tools and Guidelines for Young Oncologists From Resource-Limited Settings to Publish Excellence and Advance Their Career.JCO global oncology · 2021Article
- Wilfully submitting to and publishing in predatory journals - a covert form of research misconduct?Biochemia medica · 2021Article
- Beware of Predatory Conferences: A Pandemic through Another Pandemic.Indian journal of psychological medicine · 2021Article
- The International Dental Journal Continues to Evolve.International dental journal · 2021Article
- A brief guide to the science and art of writing manuscripts in biomedicine.Journal of translational medicine · 2020Review
- Money down the drain: predatory publishing in the COVID-19 era.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
10 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Predatory journals (PJ) exploit the open-access model promising high acceptance rate and fast track publishing without proper peer review. At minimum, PJ are eroding the credibility of the scientific literature in the health sciences as they actually boost the propagation of errors. In this article, we identify issues with PJ and provide several responses, from international and interdisciplinary perspectives in health sciences. Authors, particularly researchers with limited previous experience with international publications, need to be careful when considering potential journals for submission, due to the current existence of large numbers of PJ. Universities around the world, particularly in developing countries, might develop strategies to discourage their researchers from submitting manuscripts to PJ or serving as members of their editorial committees.
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Registered trials
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