Analysis of thirteen predatory publishers: a trap for eager-to-publish researchers.
Objective: To demonstrate a strategy employed by predatory publishers to trap eager-to-publish authors or researchers into submitting their work.Methods: This was a case study of 13 potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers with similar characteristics. Eleven publi...
| Publicado en: | Current Medical Research & Opinion Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 157 - 163 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jan2018
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=126826332&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 126826332 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 03007995 DFY jtl: Current Medical Research & Opinion issn: 03007995 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jan2018 vid: 34 iid: 1 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artinfo: ui: 126826332 126826332 NLM28722493 126826332 10.1080/03007995.2017.1358160 NLM28722493 126826332 ppf: 157 ppct: 6 formats: tig: atl: Analysis of thirteen predatory publishers: a trap for eager-to-publish researchers. aug: au: Bolshete, Pravin affil: Scientific Writing and Epidemiology, Tata Consultancy Services, Thane, Mumbai, India sug: subj: Publishing Standards Newsletters Standards Human ab: Objective: To demonstrate a strategy employed by predatory publishers to trap eager-to-publish authors or researchers into submitting their work.Methods: This was a case study of 13 potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers with similar characteristics. Eleven publishers were included from Beall's list and two additional publishers were identified from a Google web search. Each publisher's site was visited and its content analyzed. Publishers publishing biomedical journals were further explored and additional data was collected regarding their volumes, details of publications and editorial-board members.Results: Overall, the look and feel of all 13 publishers was similar including names of publishers, website addresses, homepage content, homepage images, list of journals and subject areas, as if they were copied and pasted. There were discrepancies in article-processing charges within the publishers. None of the publishers identified names in their contact details and primarily included only email addresses. Author instructions were similar across all 13 publishers. Most publishers listed journals of varied subject areas including biomedical journals (12 publishers) covering different geographic locations. Most biomedical journals published none or very few articles. The highest number of articles published by any single biomedical journal was 28. Several editorial-board members were listed across more than one journals, with one member listed 81 times in different 69 journals (i.e. twice in 12 journals).Conclusion: There was a strong reason to believe that predatory publishers may have several publication houses with different names under a single roof to trap authors from different geographic locations. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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