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Predatory journals are easy to please. They seem to accept papers with little regard for quality, at a fraction of the cost charged by mainstream open-access journals. These supposedly scholarly publishing entities are murky operations, making money by collecting fees while failing to deliver on the...

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Published in:Nature (London) Vol. 549; no. 7670; pp. 23 - 25
Main Authors: Moher, David, Shamseer, Larissa, Cobey, Kelly D., Lalu, Manoj M., Galipeau, James, Avey, Marc T., Ahmadzai, Nadera, Alabousi, Mostafa, Barbeau, Pauline, Beck, Andrew, Daniel, Raymond, Frank, Robert, Ghannad, Mona, Hamel, Candyce, Hersi, Mona, Hutton, Brian, Isupov, Inga, McGrath, Trevor A., McInnes, Matthew D. F., Page, Matthew J., Pratt, Misty, Pussegoda, Kusala, Shea, Beverley, Srivastava, Anubhav, Stevens, Adrienne, Thavorn, Kednapa, van Katwyk, Sasha, Ward, Roxanne, Wolfe, Dianna, Yazdi, Fatemeh, Yu, Ashley M., Ziai, Hedyeh
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 07.09.2017
Nature Publishing Group
Subjects:
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Animals
Animals, Laboratory
Archiving
Authorship
Avoidance Learning
Biomedical research
Biomedical Research - standards
Biomedical Research - statistics & numerical data
Clinical trials
Clinical Trials as Topic - utilization
comment
Developed Countries - economics
Developed Countries - statistics & numerical data
Developing Countries - economics
Developing Countries - statistics & numerical data
Ethics
Guidelines as Topic
Humanities and Social Sciences
Humans
Internationality
multidisciplinary
National Institutes of Health (U.S.) - economics
Open access publishing
Open Access Publishing - economics
Open Access Publishing - supply & distribution
Open Access Publishing - utilization
Periodicals as Topic - ethics
Periodicals as Topic - standards
Publishing - ethics
Publishing - standards
Publishing - supply & distribution
Research Personnel - education
Research Personnel - ethics
Research Personnel - standards
Research Personnel - statistics & numerical data
Research Support as Topic - standards
Research Support as Topic - statistics & numerical data
Researchers
Review Literature as Topic
Scholarly publishing
Science
Studies
United States
United States > US
India
ISSN:0028-0836, 1476-4687, 1476-4687
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Summary:Predatory journals are easy to please. They seem to accept papers with little regard for quality, at a fraction of the cost charged by mainstream open-access journals. These supposedly scholarly publishing entities are murky operations, making money by collecting fees while failing to deliver on their claims of being open access and failing to provide services such as peer review and archiving.
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ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/549023a