Canadian academics' use of predatory journals.
Introduction: Predatory journals have been acknowledged as an increasing concern in the scholarly literature over the last decade, but research on the subject has been sparse. Research that has focused on predatory journals in the Canadian context has been even rarer, and limited to work focused on...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association (JCHLA) Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 140 - 154 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Canadian Health Libraries Association
Dec2021
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