Caveat Emptor: Predatory Publishers, Rogue Journals, and the Potential Corruption of Addiction Science.
The name predatory publisher has been applied by academic librarian Jeffrey Beall to describe an open-access, scholarly publishing business model in which publication fees are charged to authors without providing the editorial judgment, peer-review process, and publishing services associated with mo...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Studies on Alcohol & Drugs Vol. 79; no. 4; pp. 509 - 514 |
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Alcohol Research Documentation
Jul2018
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