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ArticleAdvanced pharmaceutical bulletin2024

Unmasking Greenwashing: Mapping Hijacked Medicine Journals to the Sustainable Development Goals.

Mihály Hegedűs, Mehdi Dadkhah, Lóránt Dénes Dávid

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Article in Advanced pharmaceutical bulletin, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Mihály HegedűsTomori Pál College, Chamber of Hungarian Auditors, Budapest, Hungary.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8064-0208
Mehdi DadkhahAmrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, Kerala, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7964-4762
Lóránt Dénes DávidJohn von Neumann University, Faculty of Economics and Business, Department of Tourism and Hospitality, HU-6000 Kecskemét, Hungary.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7880-9860

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purpose: Hijacked journals are journals managed by cybercriminals that mimic the original journal and publish manuscripts without peer review, charging a fee to the author. Although there is literature on hijacked journals, there is a gap in the content of published papers in the hijacked journals. This study aims to analyze the content of published papers in hijacked journals to assess their alignment with various Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Methods: About 21 medicine journals have been investigated and about 3300 published manuscripts in them analyzed in terms of SDGs using the text-based analyzing method. Results: The findings indicated that published manuscripts fit in the categories of SDG 01, SDG 03, SDG 11, and SDG 16 where SDG-03 is most dominant. Conclusion: The awareness about the problem of hijacked journals is critical, especially for developing countries, to eliminate the negative effects of these journals. It is the first research that discusses the negative effect of hijacked journals by considering SDGs and sheds light on the phenomenon.

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Circular economyHijacked journalsMedicinePredatory journalsPublication ethicsScientific rankingSustainable development goals

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PMID40190683
PMCPMC11970489

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