Analyzing the citation impact of predatory journals in the health sciences
Authors : Erin Watson, AHI, Li Zhang Objective Predatory journal articles do not undergo rigorous peer review and so their quality is potentially lower. Citing ...
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Evaluation of Faculty Knowledge of Predatory Journals in the United States: A Cross-Institutional Survey
Authors : Nicole R. Webber, Stephanie Wiegand, Jason A. Cohen, John M. Reynolds, Lisa Ancelet, Arlene V. Salazar Predatory journals are a known hazard in modern...
Publication and collaboration anomalies in academic papers originating from a paper mill: Evidence from a Russia-based paper mill
Author : Anna Abalkina This study attempts to detect papers originating from the Russia-based paper mill ‘International Publisher’ LLC. A total of 1,063 offers ...
Are papers published in predatory journals worthless? A geopolitical dimension revealed by content-based analysis of citations
Authors : Zehra Taşkın, Franciszek Krawczyk, Emanuel Kulczycki This study uses content-based citation analysis to move beyond the simplified classification of p...
Predatory journals and publishers: Characteristics and impact of academic spam to researchers in educational sciences
Authors : Jaume Sureda-Negre, Aina Calvo-Sastre, Rubén Comas-Forgas This study focuses on the phenomenon of presumed predatory scientific publications in the fi...
Journals in Beall’s list perform as a group less well than other open access journals indexed in Scopus but reveal large differences among publishers
Authors : Henk F. Moed, Carmen Lopez-Illescas, Vicente P. Guerrero-Bote, Felix de Moya-Anegon The list of potential, possible or probable predatory scholarly op...
Journal citation reports and the definition of a predatory journal: The case of the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
Author : M. Ángeles Oviedo-García The extent to which predatory journals can harm scientific practice increases as the numbers of such journals expand, in so fa...