ReviewMedical archives (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)2020
Predatory Open Access Journals are Indexed in Reputable Databases: a Revisiting Issue or an Unsolved Problem.
Review in Medical archives (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed.
- The value of learned societies in the biological sciences: benefits, threats, and futures.BMC biology · 2026Review
- An Analysis of Solicitations From Predatory Journals in Ophthalmology.American journal of ophthalmology · 2024Article
- [Predatory journals: What are they and how to avoid them?]Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social · 2024Article
- Predatory publishing in medical education: a rapid scoping review.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- How Far Goes the Un-ethic of the Authors Who Submit the Articles to the Journals, Or, Better to Say, Their "Scientific Insolence"?Acta informatica medica : AIM : journal of the Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia & Herzegovina : casopis Drustva za medicinsku informatiku BiH · 2023Article
- 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
- Operation of Medical Journal Citation Databases Without Control. Dilemma: Are They What They Want to Be in the Eyes of Scientific Community.Materia socio-medica · 2022Article
- Instead of the Letter to the Editor-Dilemma: Is a New Form of Blackmail Emerging in the World of Scientific Journals Publishing?Medical archives (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) · 2022Article
- Assessing the impact of predatory journals on policy and guidance documents: a cross-sectional study protocol.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Reducing Health Misinformation in Science: A Call to Arms.The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · 2022Article
- Wilfully submitting to and publishing in predatory journals - a covert form of research misconduct?Biochemia medica · 2021Article
- Predatory Journals and Publishers - Dilemmas: How to Assess it and How to Avoid it?Medical archives (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) · 2021Article
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Authors and funding
9 authors.
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Abstract
introductionPseudo journals, hijacked journals, fraudulent journals, fake journals, and predatory journals waste valuable research when authors publish their studies in them.
aimThis article described novel suggested features for the identification of fraudulent journals and aimed to explain this issue to help inexperienced scientists avoid publishing in predatory journals.
methodsThe articles related to this topic in were retrieved from PubMed and trustable Internet sources.
resultsUnfortunately, some fake journals have made their way into reputable databases, such as PubMed, PubMed Central, MEDLINE, SCOPUS, and Web of Science; thus, the serious question has been raised regarding how we should address this problematic phenomenon. We recommended 28 suggested characteristics of predatory journals for readers to take into consideration.
conclusionUnaware of the detrimental effects associated with publishing in disreputable journals, inexperienced researchers can fall victim to them. Together, as both readers and writers, we should completely boycott predatory journals.
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