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May 29, 2018 · Predatory journals may put well‐established, scientific OA journals under pressure, as many authors might tend to publish their work in a predatory OA journal to avoid their article undergoing a full and time‐consuming peer review, as it would in a good OA journal.41
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Apr 22, 2020 · Predatory journals—also called fraudulent, deceptive, or pseudo-journals—are publications that claim to be legitimate scholarly journals but misrepresent their publishing practices.
Some common forms of predatory publishing practices include falsely claiming to provide peer review, hiding information about Article Processing Charges (APCs), misrepresenting members of the journal’s editorial board, and other violations of copyright or scholarly ethics.
Oct 4, 2021 · More and more authors of articles in this scientific field, in the absence of other opportunities to engage in science, in this period of the Corona pandemic crisis imposed as a devastating consequence, began to deal with these topics, write about plagiarism and predation, conduct meta-analyze, and recommend what and how authors, especially who ...
Jun 11, 2021 · We describe a set of actions that authors of systematic reviews can consider when handling articles published in predatory journals: (1) detail methods for addressing predatory journal articles a priori in a study protocol, (2) determine whether included studies are published in open access journals and if they are listed in the ...
Jun 11, 2021 · We describe a set of actions that authors of systematic reviews can consider when handling articles published in predatory journals: (1) detail methods for addressing predatory journal articles a priori in a study protocol, (2) determine whether included studies are published in open access journals and if they are listed in the directory of ope...
Oct 17, 2021 · Predatory Journals and Publishers – Dilemmas: How to Assess it and How to Avoid it? 328 EDITORIAL | MED ARCH. 2021 OCT; 75 (5): 328-334. Predatory Journals and Publishers. – Dilemmas:...