Predatory journals exploit structural weaknesses in scholarly publishing

Jeffrey Beall

doi:10.1051/fopen/2018001

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Issue		4open Volume 1, 2018


Article Number		1
Number of page(s)		3
Section		Life Sciences – Medicine
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/fopen/2018001
Published online		01 June 2018

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[1] Willinsky J, Wolfson L (2001), The indexing of scholarly journals: a tipping point for publishing reform? JEP 7. DOI: 10.3998/3336451.0007.202. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]

[2] Beall J (2015), What the Open-Access Movement Doesn't Want You to Know, American Association of University Professors (AAUP), https://www.aaup.org/article/what-open-access-movement-doesn%E2%80%99t-want-you-know. [Google Scholar]

[3] Pinfield S (2013), Is scholarly publishing going from crisis to crisis, Learned Publishing, 26, 85–88. DOI:10.1087/20130204. [Google Scholar]

[4] Bagues MF, Sylos-Labini M, Zinovyeva N (2017), A Walk on the Wild Side: 'Predatory' Journals and Information Asymmetries in Scientific Evaluations, IZA DP No. 11041, 1–47. http://ftp.iza.org/dp11041.pdf. [Google Scholar]

[5] Grosheide FW (1998), The gentleman's agreement in legal theory and in modern practice : the Dutch civil law perspective published in Rapports néerlandais pour le quinzième congrès international de droit comparé, Intersentia Ltd., Cambridge, United Kingdom, 91–114 ISBN 90-5095-041-8. https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/42822/b6.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y. [Google Scholar]

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[8] Brücher BLDM (2018), Science Belongs to No One − And to Everyone, 4open 1(E1), 1–11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/fopen/2017501. [Google Scholar]

[9] Science Publishing Group http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/home/index. [Google Scholar]

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[11] Dorj J (2014), Mathematical proof of the law of karma, Am J Appl Math 2, 111–126. DOI: 10.11648/j.ajam.20140204.12. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]

[12] Beall J (2016) Medical publishing and the threat of predatory journals, Int J Womens Dermatol 2, 115–116. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijwd.2016.08.002. [CrossRef] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

[13] Tosti A, Maddy AJ (2017), Ranking predatory journals in dermatology: distinguishing the bad from the ugly, Int J Dermatol 56, 718–720. DOI:10.1111/ijd.13644. [CrossRef] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

[14] Oermann MH, Conklin JL, Nicoll LH, Chinn PL, Ashton KS, Edie AH, Amarasekara S, Budinger SC (2016), Study of Predatory Open Access Nursing Journals, J Nurs Scholarsh 48, 624–632. DOI:10.1111/jnu.12248. [CrossRef] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

[15] Beall J (2017), What I learned from predatory publishers, Biochemica Medica 27, 273–278. DOI: 10.11613/BM.2017.029. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]

[16] Poynder R (2016), Open access will remain a half-revolution. [Interview by Michał Starczewski]. Retrieved from: https://otwartanauka.pl/in-english/experts-on-open-access/open-access-will-remain-a-half-revolution-interview-with-richard-poynder. [Google Scholar]

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