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ArticleJournal of Korean medical science2025

Predatory Journals: What Can We Do to Protect Their Prey?

Christine Laine, Dianne Babski, Vivienne C Bachelet, Till W Bärnighausen, Christopher Baethge, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Frank Frizelle, Laragh Gollogy, Sabine Kleinert, Elizabeth Loder and 6 more

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Article in Journal of Korean medical science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Predatory Journals.Einstein (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2025
    Article
  4. How To Cope With Predatory Journals.Journal of Korean medical science · 2025
    Review
  5. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Christine LaineEditor in Chief, Annals of Internal Medicine.
Dianne BabskiDirector, User Services and Collection Division, National Library of Medicine.
Vivienne C BacheletEditor in Chief, Medwave.
Till W BärnighausenEditor-in-Chief, PLOS Medicine.
Christopher BaethgeChief Scientific Editor, Deutsches Ärzteblatt (German Medical Journal) and Deutsches Ärzteblatt International.
Kirsten Bibbins-DomingoEditor in Chief, JAMA and the JAMA Network.
Frank FrizelleEditor in Chief, New Zealand Medical Journal.
Laragh GollogyEditor, Bulletin of the World Health Organization.
Sabine KleinertDeputy Editor, The Lancet.
Elizabeth LoderHead of Research, The BMJ.
João MonteiroChief Editor, Nature Medicine.
Eric J RubinEditor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine.
Peush SahniRepresentative and past president of the World Association of Medical Editors, and Editor, The National Medical Journal of India.
Christina C WeeSecretary, International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, and Senior Deputy Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine. cwee@acponline.org.
Jin-Hong YooEditor-in-Chief, Journal of Korean Medical Science.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2611-3399
Lilia ZakhamaEditor-in-Chief, La Tunisie Médicale.

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID39807006
PMCPMC11729235

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Registered trials

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