ArticleJournal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA2022
Unsolicited solicitations: identifying characteristics of unsolicited emails from potentially predatory journals and the role of librarians.
Article in Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- From submission to publication: A practical guide to peer review publication for medical educators.AEM education and training · 2025Review
- Navigating the academic waters: Strategies to avoid predatory journals and publish in indexed journals.Journal of education and health promotion · 2025Review
- Decoding Correlations in Predatory Business Practices and Physicians' Strategies Against Daily Predatory Emails.Cureus · 2024Article
- Email invitations to publish: Academically sound (such as SAFP) versus potentially predatory journals.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2024Article
- [Predatory journals: What are they and how to avoid them?]Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social · 2024Article
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Abstract
Email solicitations for manuscript submissions are a common tactic employed by predatory journals to attract potential victims. Both new and established researchers alike have fallen prey to this tactic, justifying the need for librarians to provide further education and support in this area. This commentary provides a succinct overview of predatory journals; briefly describes the problem of predatory journal email solicitations; explains the role librarians can play in their identification; and lists some red flags and tactics librarians can tell researchers to look out for, as informed by the literature and the author's analysis of 60 unsolicited journal emails she received in her own institutional inbox.
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