Discriminating Between Legitimate and Predatory Open Access Journals: Report from the International Federation for Emergency Medicine Research Committee.
Introduction: Open access (OA) medical publishing is growing rapidly. While subscription-based publishing does not charge the author, OA does. This opens the door for "predatory" publishers who take authors' money but provide no substantial peer review or indexing to truly disseminate research findi...
| Publicado en: | Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health Vol. 17; no. 5; pp. 497 - 508 |
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| Formato: | research systematic review tables/charts Journal Article |
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Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health
Sep2016
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