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| Research into fraudulent journals |
Many of the 48 journals were ‘predatory’ publishers with an open access component. This article highlighted the need for a constant focus on safeguarding the quality of open access publications.
In Nature, extensive attention is devoted to this research. The article also addresses the pressure on researchers to publish. This contributes to the strong rise in the number of predatory journals, because of the importance of getting articles published for a research career. The New York Times recently published the article “Many Academics Are Eager to Publish in Worthless Journals”.
Another point of concern is the fact that even within PubMed, references from predatory journals can appear, although labelled “Not currently indexed for MEDLINE”. See the article in The Lancet by A. Manca The WAME (World Association of Medical Editors has drawn up a document to help interested parties distinguish between predatory and legitimate journals. See also this list of recent articles about predatory journals. |
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