Revisiting the Term Predatory Open Access 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

18 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Awareness, knowledge, and perceptions of predatory journals among medical students in the western region of Saudi Arabia: A cross-sectional survey.Medicine · 2026
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2. Has open access in neurosurgery made access easier but sharing harder? A National survey from an LMIC (Turkey).Neurosurgical review · 2025
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3. Common issues of systematic reviews in the sports and exercise medicine field.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2024
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4. Characteristics of Retracted Publications From Kazakhstan: An Analysis Using the Retraction Watch Database.Journal of Korean medical science · 2023
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5. A Toolkit for Detecting Fallacious Calls for Papers from Potential Predatory Journals.Advanced pharmaceutical bulletin · 2023
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6. Jourchain: using blockchain to avoid questionable journals.Irish journal of medical science · 2022
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7. Dissemination of Plastic Surgery Research: An Analysis ofPlastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2022
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8. Editorial misconduct: the case of online predatory journals.Heliyon · 2022
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9. Avoiding predatory publishing for early-career ophthalmologists.Indian journal of ophthalmology · 2021
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10. Open Access Fees: A Barrier to Scholarly Activity Among Neurology Trainees.The Permanente journal · 2021
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11. Practical Advice for South Korean Medical Researchers Regarding Open-Access and Predatory Journals.Cancer research and treatment · 2021
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12. Understanding of medical students about predatory journals: A comparative study from KSA and New Zealand.Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences · 2020
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13. Predatory Publishers/Journals in Medical Sciences: How to Avoid, Stop, and What to Do after Being Scammed by Them?Journal of gastrointestinal cancer · 2020
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14. Predatory Open Access Journals are Indexed in Reputable Databases: a Revisiting Issue or an Unsolved Problem.Medical archives (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) · 2020
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15. Similarity and Plagiarism in Scholarly Journal Submissions: Bringing Clarity to the Concept for Authors, Reviewers and Editors.Journal of Korean medical science · 2020
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16. Independent, Publicly Funded Journals Adhering to Platinum Open Access Are the Future of Responsible Scholarly Publishing.Journal of Korean medical science · 2020
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17. Identifying publications in questionable journals in the context of performance-based research funding.PloS one · 2019
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18. Predatory conferences in biomedical streams: An invitation for academic upliftment or predator's looking for prey.Saudi journal of anaesthesia
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Corrections and comments

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  Deceptive Journal Differs from Low Quality Journal.2019

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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