ArticleInternational journal of public health2019
Readers beware! Predatory journals are infiltrating citation databases.
Article in International journal of public health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.
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
20 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Investigating the trustworthiness of research evidence used to inform public health policy: a qualitative interview study on the use of predatory journal citations in policy documents.Health research policy and systems · 2025Article
- Rebranding of Predatory Journals and Conferences: Understanding Its Implication and Prevention Strategy.Cureus · 2023Review
- Predatory journals: Perception, impact and use of Beall's list by the scientific community-A bibliometric big data study.PloS one · 2023Article
- Assessing the impact of predatory journals on policy and guidance documents: a cross-sectional study protocol.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Choices of immediate open access and the relationship to journal ranking and publish-and-read deals.Frontiers in research metrics and analytics · 2022Article
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- Practical Tools and Guidelines for Young Oncologists From Resource-Limited Settings to Publish Excellence and Advance Their Career.JCO global oncology · 2021Article
- 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
- Reply to Letter to the Editor Referring to Article "Retorno ao Esporte após Osteotomia Tibial Alta com Método de Cunha de Abertura" - Nicolini AP, Christiano ES, Abdalla RJ, Cohen M, Carvalho RT.Revista brasileira de ortopedia · 2021Article
- Predatory journals: temporary inconvenience or permanent disruption?Acta neurochirurgica · 2021Article
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- A new awakening indeed.Indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2021Article
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- Predatory Open Access Journals are Indexed in Reputable Databases: a Revisiting Issue or an Unsolved Problem.Medical archives (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) · 2020Review
- Citations and metrics of journals discontinued from Scopus for publication concerns: the GhoS(t)copus Project.F1000Research · 2020Article
- Inclusion of predatory journals in Scopus is inflating scholars' metrics and advancing careers.International journal of public health · 2020Article
- Response to Getting Your First Publication in Medical Education-Why? What? Where? How?Journal of medical education and curricular developmentArticle
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.
Identifiers
31342093What OpenQuestion holds
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.