Predatory publishing is a relatively recent phenomenon that seems to be exploiting some key features of the open access publishing model, sustained by collecting APCs that are far less than those found in legitimate open access journals. This CME aims to introduce to the participants on the phenomenon of predatory journals, why they continue to thrive, characteristics that are suggestive of a predatory journal, and how one can take step to minimize the risk of faling into predatory journal publication
Through the course of your research, right until you get your your paper published, there will be several individuals who have contributed to your research project in different ways. However, not all of these individuals can be considered as authors of your paper. So who qualifies as an author on your manuscript?
This slide deck will clarify who is an author, who does not qualify as an author of your paper and also three unethical authorship-related practices that you must avoid.
The essential mission of SRGE toward the research and education in Egypt is to foster learning and promoting research integrity in the current and next generation of researchers in Egypt. SRGE is rededicating itself to this fundamental purpose.
Through the course of your research, right until you get your your paper published, there will be several individuals who have contributed to your research project in different ways. However, not all of these individuals can be considered as authors of your paper. So who qualifies as an author on your manuscript?
This slide deck will clarify who is an author, who does not qualify as an author of your paper and also three unethical authorship-related practices that you must avoid.
The essential mission of SRGE toward the research and education in Egypt is to foster learning and promoting research integrity in the current and next generation of researchers in Egypt. SRGE is rededicating itself to this fundamental purpose.
5 hours course taught by Nicolás Robinson-García and Evaristo Jiménez-Contreras in June 23-July 3, 2014 in the University of Granada within the exchange program with Al-Faraby Kazakh National University students 'Current problems of modern philology'.
Digital strategies to find the right journal for publishing your researchSC CTSI at USC and CHLA
Date: Apr 3, 2019
Speaker: Duncan Nicholas, Former Development Editor at international academic publisher Taylor and Francis Group, and now Director of DN Journals research publishing consultancy, and Senior Consultant for Enago Academy.
Overview: This webinar will provide an overview of digital tools and initiatives that help researchers select the right journal for their manuscript to ensure the best chance of article acceptance.
I explain plainly what is salami silcing, a practice of fragmenting single research into as many publications as possible. Salami publishing and hazards
This ppt will provide the support to finding the indexing of publication and also will help to manage your research profile among world research forums.
The presentation discusses about a Thesis, Research paper, Review Article & Technical Reports: Organization of thesis and reports, formatting issues, citation methods, references, effective oral presentation of research. Quality indices of research publication: impact factor, immediacy factor, H- index and other citation indices. A verbal consent of Prof. Dr. C. B. Bhatt was obtained (at 4.15pm on Dt. 26-11-2016 at Hall A-2, GTU, Chandkheda) to float the presentation online in benefits of the research scholar society.
This presentation is about shortlisting and choosing journals for publishing. It also discusses quality issues, including predatory and hijacked journals. Most appropriate for Social Science students.
Impact Factor Journals as per JCR, SNIP, SJR, IPP, CiteScoreSaptarshi Ghosh
Journal-level metrics
Metrics have become a fact of life in many - if not all - fields of research and scholarship. In an age of information abundance (often termed ‘information overload’), having a shorthand for the signals for where in the ocean of published literature to focus our limited attention has become increasingly important.
Research metrics are sometimes controversial, especially when in popular usage they become proxies for multidimensional concepts such as research quality or impact. Each metric may offer a different emphasis based on its underlying data source, method of calculation, or context of use. For this reason, Elsevier promotes the responsible use of research metrics encapsulated in two “golden rules”. Those are: always use both qualitative and quantitative input for decisions (i.e. expert opinion alongside metrics), and always use more than one research metric as the quantitative input. This second rule acknowledges that performance cannot be expressed by any single metric, as well as the fact that all metrics have specific strengths and weaknesses. Therefore, using multiple complementary metrics can help to provide a more complete picture and reflect different aspects of research productivity and impact in the final assessment. ( Elsevier)
Redundant, Duplicate and Repetitive publications are the most important concerns in the scientific research/literature writing. The occurrence of redundancy affects the concepts of science/literature and carries with it sanctions of consequences. To define this issue is much challenging because of the many varieties in which one can slice, reformat, or reproduce material from an already published study. This issue also goes beyond the duplication of a single study because it might possible that the same or similar data can be published in the early, middle, and later stages of an on-going study. This may have a damaging impact on the scientific study/literature base. Similar to slicing a cake, there are so many ways of representing a study or a set of data/information. We can slice a cake into different shapes like squares, triangles, rounds, or layers. Which of these might be the best way to slice a cake? Unfortunately, this may be the wrong question. The point is that the cake that is being referred to, the data/ information set or the study/findings, should not be sliced at all. Instead, the study should be presented as a whole to the readership to ensure the integrity of science/technology because of the impact that may have on patients who will be affected by the information contained in the literature/findings. Redundant, duplicate, or repetitive publications occur when there is representation of two or more studies, data sets, or publications in either electronic or print media. The publications can overlap partially or completely, such that a similar portion, major component(s), or complete representation of a previously/simultaneous ly or future published study is duplicated.
SALAMI SLICING: The slicing of research publication that would form one meaningful paper into several different papers is known as salami publication or salami slicing. Unlike duplicate publication, which involves reporting the exact same data in two or more publications, salami slicing involves breaking up or segmenting a large study into two or more publications. These segments are called slices of a study. As a general rule, as long as the slices of a broken-up study share the same hypotheses, population, and methods, this is not acceptable in general practice. The same slice should never be published more than once at all. According to the United States Office of Research Integrity (USORI), salami slicing can result in a distortion of the literature/findings by leading unsuspecting readers to believe that data presented in each salami slice (journal article) is derived from a different subject sample/source. Somehow this practice not only skews the scientific database but it creates repetition to waste reader's time as well as the time of editors and peer reviewers, who must also handle each paper separately.
Short PowerPoint presentation outlining important things to consider when deciding where to publish your research. This presentation also lists some of the tools that can be used to evaluate journal quality to assist in the publishing decision-making process.
Workshop de autores realizado em parceria com os editores da Springer Nature, Biblioteca Central e Biblioteca do Biociências da UFRGS, dia 25 de outubro de 2018. Ministrante Christina Eckey.
5 hours course taught by Nicolás Robinson-García and Evaristo Jiménez-Contreras in June 23-July 3, 2014 in the University of Granada within the exchange program with Al-Faraby Kazakh National University students 'Current problems of modern philology'.
Digital strategies to find the right journal for publishing your researchSC CTSI at USC and CHLA
Date: Apr 3, 2019
Speaker: Duncan Nicholas, Former Development Editor at international academic publisher Taylor and Francis Group, and now Director of DN Journals research publishing consultancy, and Senior Consultant for Enago Academy.
Overview: This webinar will provide an overview of digital tools and initiatives that help researchers select the right journal for their manuscript to ensure the best chance of article acceptance.
I explain plainly what is salami silcing, a practice of fragmenting single research into as many publications as possible. Salami publishing and hazards
This ppt will provide the support to finding the indexing of publication and also will help to manage your research profile among world research forums.
The presentation discusses about a Thesis, Research paper, Review Article & Technical Reports: Organization of thesis and reports, formatting issues, citation methods, references, effective oral presentation of research. Quality indices of research publication: impact factor, immediacy factor, H- index and other citation indices. A verbal consent of Prof. Dr. C. B. Bhatt was obtained (at 4.15pm on Dt. 26-11-2016 at Hall A-2, GTU, Chandkheda) to float the presentation online in benefits of the research scholar society.
This presentation is about shortlisting and choosing journals for publishing. It also discusses quality issues, including predatory and hijacked journals. Most appropriate for Social Science students.
Impact Factor Journals as per JCR, SNIP, SJR, IPP, CiteScoreSaptarshi Ghosh
Journal-level metrics
Metrics have become a fact of life in many - if not all - fields of research and scholarship. In an age of information abundance (often termed ‘information overload’), having a shorthand for the signals for where in the ocean of published literature to focus our limited attention has become increasingly important.
Research metrics are sometimes controversial, especially when in popular usage they become proxies for multidimensional concepts such as research quality or impact. Each metric may offer a different emphasis based on its underlying data source, method of calculation, or context of use. For this reason, Elsevier promotes the responsible use of research metrics encapsulated in two “golden rules”. Those are: always use both qualitative and quantitative input for decisions (i.e. expert opinion alongside metrics), and always use more than one research metric as the quantitative input. This second rule acknowledges that performance cannot be expressed by any single metric, as well as the fact that all metrics have specific strengths and weaknesses. Therefore, using multiple complementary metrics can help to provide a more complete picture and reflect different aspects of research productivity and impact in the final assessment. ( Elsevier)
Redundant, Duplicate and Repetitive publications are the most important concerns in the scientific research/literature writing. The occurrence of redundancy affects the concepts of science/literature and carries with it sanctions of consequences. To define this issue is much challenging because of the many varieties in which one can slice, reformat, or reproduce material from an already published study. This issue also goes beyond the duplication of a single study because it might possible that the same or similar data can be published in the early, middle, and later stages of an on-going study. This may have a damaging impact on the scientific study/literature base. Similar to slicing a cake, there are so many ways of representing a study or a set of data/information. We can slice a cake into different shapes like squares, triangles, rounds, or layers. Which of these might be the best way to slice a cake? Unfortunately, this may be the wrong question. The point is that the cake that is being referred to, the data/ information set or the study/findings, should not be sliced at all. Instead, the study should be presented as a whole to the readership to ensure the integrity of science/technology because of the impact that may have on patients who will be affected by the information contained in the literature/findings. Redundant, duplicate, or repetitive publications occur when there is representation of two or more studies, data sets, or publications in either electronic or print media. The publications can overlap partially or completely, such that a similar portion, major component(s), or complete representation of a previously/simultaneous ly or future published study is duplicated.
SALAMI SLICING: The slicing of research publication that would form one meaningful paper into several different papers is known as salami publication or salami slicing. Unlike duplicate publication, which involves reporting the exact same data in two or more publications, salami slicing involves breaking up or segmenting a large study into two or more publications. These segments are called slices of a study. As a general rule, as long as the slices of a broken-up study share the same hypotheses, population, and methods, this is not acceptable in general practice. The same slice should never be published more than once at all. According to the United States Office of Research Integrity (USORI), salami slicing can result in a distortion of the literature/findings by leading unsuspecting readers to believe that data presented in each salami slice (journal article) is derived from a different subject sample/source. Somehow this practice not only skews the scientific database but it creates repetition to waste reader's time as well as the time of editors and peer reviewers, who must also handle each paper separately.
Short PowerPoint presentation outlining important things to consider when deciding where to publish your research. This presentation also lists some of the tools that can be used to evaluate journal quality to assist in the publishing decision-making process.
Workshop de autores realizado em parceria com os editores da Springer Nature, Biblioteca Central e Biblioteca do Biociências da UFRGS, dia 25 de outubro de 2018. Ministrante Christina Eckey.
This presentation is about Scholarly Communications and how it works, what are ways through one can identify right journals for publications and also briefly discusses preprints as an alternative publications space for making the research more open and visible.
Quality Assurance for Journal GuidanceSmriti Arora
Definitions
What is the need for quality assurance in journals ?
Type of journals
Bibliometric indicators
How to identify credible journals ?
Predatory/cloned journals
O SIBiUSP em parceria com a American Journal Experts - AJE (empresa especializada em ajudar pesquisadores à eliminar as barreiras linguísticas e ter seu trabalho publicado nas revistas de mais alto impacto) traz para a comunidade científica de São Paulo o "Workshop de Publicação Científica - AJE", apresentado pela Gerente de Parcerias Estratégicas do Square Research, Amy Beisel.
Jay patel Open Access TIPPA Midwest presentation june 2013Jay Patel
Hello, this is the presentation I was invited to give about Open Access at TIPPA Midwest on June 13, 2013. The focus of the presentation is how open access is changing scholarly publishing.
This presentation in intended to introduce Open Access (OA); the OA movement; OA advantages for authors, institutions and society; OA business models and publishing in OA; important tools for research and publishing; and other ‘open’ initiatives.
Finding Insights in Article-Level Metrics for Research EvaluationRichard Cave
The use of Article-Level Metrics (ALMs) as an indicator of an article’s quality and impact has dramatically increased in the last year. Publishers continue to add ALMs to research articles and new organizations have been created to aggregate ALMs across multiple fields including usage, citations, and social media. Using ALMs, researchers, librarians, funders, and the general public are able to gain insight into research articles that are the most widely read and used. PLOS launched ALM Reports (http://almreports.plos.org/) which allow users to view ALMs for any set of PLOS articles and visualize the data results. This allows users to quickly explore and compare ALMs for a large number of articles by searching for papers published by researchers at their institutions, for papers funded by specific funding agencies, or by searching on generic terms within an article. The application can be used to access up-to-date information on research papers, to view data on the downstream impact of the research, and to measure evidence of wider engagement with the research. These insights provide a powerful way to evaluate impact of research across many articles in a single view.
Apresentação - Slides do Workshop AJE na USPSIBiUSP
Workshop de Publicação Científica – AJE-USP – 10 de Maio de 2018
O objetivo do Workshop foi apresentar aos participantes informações que tornem o processo de produção do artigo científico, assim como a submissão do mesmo, mais rápido, eficiente e eficaz.
== PROGRAMAÇÃO ==
9h00 – 9h30 | RECEPÇÃO
Registro dos participantes
9h30 – 9h40 | ABERTURA
Dra. Maria Crestana – Chefe Técnica do SIBiUSP (a confirmar)
Paul Klenk – Principal Financial Analyst Research Square / AJE
9h40 – 10h00 | AJE 2018 Scholarly Publishing Landscape
Esta sessão foi uma introdução às demais sessões do workshop. Inicia com um Panorama de Publicações Científicas, passado, presente e futuro. Destaca a comunicação científica e como o Inglês se transformou no idioma da pesquisa.
10h00 – 12h00 | Writing a Better Manuscript
a) Tips for Publication Success
b) Scientific Figures
c) Conventions of Scholarly Publishing
d) AJE Author Resource Center
Nesta sessão foram dadas dicas sobre estrutura, redação, edição e formatação de elementos do artigo científico, com destaque para a introdução, materiais e métodos, bem como a apresentação de resultados por meio de figuras e tabelas. O Centro de Recursos para Autores da AJE também provê diversas informações para os autores.
12h00 – 13h30 | ALMOÇO
13h30 – 14h00 | Ethics in Research Publication
Nesta sessão foram apresentadas orientações sobre a importância do respeito aos princípios éticos e os cuidados que os autores devem ter para evitar casos de retratação e má conduta científica..
14h00 – 15h00 | Choosing the Best Journal to your Research
a) How to avoid predatory journals
b) Journal scope and impact factor
c) How well your paper adheres to the journal guidelines
Esta sessão foi dedicada à apresentação de critérios para a escolha da melhor revista para publicar seu artigo e dicas para evitar revistas predatórias.
15h00 – 15h30 | Encerramento, perguntas e observações finais
[As apresentações serão em inglês e não haverá tradução simultânea]
Palestrante: Paul Klenk – Square Research – AJE
Predatory Publications and Software Tools for IdentificationSaptarshi Ghosh
Journals that publish work without proper peer review and which charge scholars sometimes huge fees to submit should not be allowed to share space with legitimate journals and publishers, whether open access or not. These journals and publishers cheapen intellectual work by misleading scholars, preying particularly early career researchers trying to gain an edge. The credibility of scholars duped into publishing in these journals can be seriously damaged by doing so. It is important that as a scholarly community we help to protect each other from being taken advantage of in this way.
There are currently approximately 28,000 journals publishing 1.5 million papers annually. Although the majority of new journals are legitimate, the credentials of some are questionable. Such journals and publishers are referred to as 'predatory'. They commonly send spam emails to potential authors, solicit submissions and request payment of article processing charges, but lack academic rigour or credibility. This presentation will look at examples of publishers, publications and provide practical tips to identify and avoid predatory publishers.
Unearthing open access resource evaluationNina Collins
Explores types of unethical publishing tactics among false publishers claiming to be Open Access Scholarly Publishers. Presented at "Discovery to Delivery 5: Better Together", in Indianapolis, on April 25, 2014.
International Workshop on
"Information Management Tools for Academic and Research Libraries", All India Shri Shivaji Memorial Society’s
College of Engineering, Pune – 1
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Agenda
- Research Assessment and Reward systems – an obstacle for the implementation of Open Access
- Questionable publishers – and how to detect them
- Improving the quality of journals published in India
- Whitelists!?
International Workshop on "Information Management Tools for Academic and Research Libraries", All India Shri Shivaji Memorial Society’s College of Engineering, Pune – 1
18 to 22 December 2017 Lars Bjørnshauge
Basic statements about the current Scholarly Communication System.
The promises of Open Access!
Where are we now with Open Access?
DOAJ and what we do!
Disaster and Mass Casualty Incidents (updated 7th July 2020)Chew Keng Sheng
A new updated slide on an overview of disaster management in Malaysia, including the formation of NADMA as the dedicated agency to coordinate disaster management in Malaysia.
A short sharing on doctor-patient communication to First year medical students in Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, to be supplemented with anecdotal accounts.
This slide was first presented during the Malaysian 1st Emergency Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting, in conjunction with the Academy of Medicine Malaysia, Academy of Medicine Singapore and the Academy of Medicine Hong Kong Tripartite Meeting in Aug 2016.
Sensitivity, specificity and likelihood ratiosChew Keng Sheng
A short tutorial on sensitivity, specificity and likelihood ratios. In this presentation, I demonstrate why likelihood ratios are better parameters compared to sensitivity and specificity in real world setting.
ACLS 2015 Updates - The Malaysian PerspectiveChew Keng Sheng
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My talk in April 2015 in Malaysia on Best Practices and Resuscitation Workflow. The new 2015 resuscitation guidelines is expected to be released in Oct 2015.
My talk in April 2015 Malaysia on Best Practices and Resuscitation Workflow. The new 2015 resuscitation guidelines is expected to be released in Oct 2015.
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An introduction to the rationale and the two types (Write-in and Select-Menu) of Key Feature Questions. This presentation is based on an original article by Page and Bordage (1995).
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2. Predatory Journals
• “Predatory” refers to entities that prey on
academicians for financial profit via article
processing charges (APC) for open access articles,
without meeting scholarly publishing standards
(Smith, BMJ 2015:350:h210)
• Traditional subscription model:
– authors to transfer copyright; primary revenue stream is
through fees charged to readers
• Open access model:
– Authors/funders to pay APC; authors to retain copyright
with Creative Commons license; rights to reuse
3. Predatory Journals
• Predatory publishing is a relatively recent
phenomenon that seems to be exploiting some key
features of the open access publishing model,
sustained by collecting APCs that are far less than
those found in legitimate open access journals
(Shamseer et al, 2017)
4. Predatory Journals
• A common practice among predatory publishers is
sending frequent e-mails to large numbers of
individuals soliciting manuscript submission,
praising potential authors as experts or opinion
leader, promising rapid publication for authors’ fees
that may be lower than those of legitimate author-
pays journals (Laine & Winker, 2017)
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5. Predatory Journals
• These invitations may seem attractive or an easy
solution to inexperienced or early career
researchers who need to publish in order to
advance their career, or to those desperate to get a
publication accepted after a number of rejections,
or to those simply not paying attention (Shamseer
et al, 2017)
• In some cases, authors aware that the journals do
not adhere to accepted standards but choose to
publish in them anyway (Laine & Winker, 2017).
10. Predatory Journals
• Such journals do not provide the peer review that is
the hallmark of traditional scholarly publishing.
• As such, they lack the scientific merit necessary to
gain future research funding and academic
advancement.
• Identifying such journals is important for all
stakeholders (authors, researchers, peer reviewers,
editors, funders, etc) because scientific work that is
not properly vetted should not contribute to the
scientific record.
11. www.PresentationPro.com
• A longitudinal study of article volumes and
• publishing market characteristics estimated 8000
active predatory journals, with total articles
increasing from
• 53,000 in 2010 to 420,000 in 2014 (an estimated
three-quarters of authors were from Asia and
Africa)
12. Development Of Active Predatory Open
Access Journals From 2010 To 2014
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Shen and Björk BMC Medicine (2015) 13:230
13. Development Of Predatory Open Access
Article Volumes From 2010 To 2014
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14. Distribution Of Predatory Open Access
Articles In 2014 By Scientific Discipline
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15. Development Of The Average Number Of
Articles Per Journal From 2010 To 2014
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16. The distribution of Publishers (n = 656) by
Geographic Regions
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17. Distribution Of Publishers By Country For
The Different Strata
Shen and Björk BMC Medicine (2015) 13:230
18. Distribution Of The Corresponding Authors
By Geographic Regions
Shen and Björk BMC Medicine (2015) 13:230
19. APCs in Predatory Journals
Shen and Björk BMC Medicine (2015) 13:230
20. Scatter Plot Of Article Numbers Versus
Article Processing Fee
Shen and Björk BMC Medicine (2015) 13:230
4 outliers:
Journal 1, 3 and 4 are
published by large
publishers (100+), and
in particular journal 4
(Remote Sensing).
Journal 2 is the
‘hijacked’ journal
Experimental & Clinical
Cardiology, which in
2014 still retained its
impact factor.
Until 2013, the journal was published by Pulsus Group, which sold the
journal to Cardiology Academic Press.
24. Beall’s List
• From 2011 to January 2017, Jeffrey Beall, a
librarian at Auraria Library and associate professor
at the University of Colorado Denver, compiled
annual lists of potential, possible, or probably
predatory scholarly open access journals
• The effort involved in developing Beall’s list was
impressive and it was a reasonable starting point
for someone who wanted to investigate a journal’s
or publisher’s authenticity.
25. World Association of Medical Editors
(WAME)
Go to WAME website for Beall’s criteria
26. Beall’s List
• However, Beall did not list the specific criteria he
used to categorize a given journal as predatory
• Beall also mistakenly black-listed some legitimate
journals and publishers, particularly those from low
and middle income countries (Laine & Winker,
2017)
• From January 2017 onwards, Beall’s website was
defunct for unclear reasons
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28. Think-Check-Submit Guide
• Do you or your colleagues know
the journal?
• Can you easily identify and
contact the publisher?
• Is the journal clear about the
type of peer review it uses?
• Are articles indexed in services
that you use?
• Is it clear what fees will be
charged?
• Do you recognise the editorial
board?
• Is the publisher a member of a
recognized industry initiative?
29. Examples of recognized industry initiatives
• Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
• Open Access Scholarly Publishers’ Association
(OASPA)
• INASP’s Journals Online platforms (for journals
published in Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Central
America and Mongolia) or on African Journals
Online (AJOL, for African journals)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) list
• Journal Citation Report (JCR) list
30. Listing in DOAJ and JCR
• Many predatory journals are claiming they are
indexed by DOAJ and JCR Master List, but they
are not.
• Always check whether a journal is indexed by JCR
or/and DOAJ.
• If it is, that is usually a very good indicator that the
journal is not predatory.
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31.
32. 13 Salient Features Of Potential Predatory
Journals
1. The wide scope of interest includes non-
biomedical subjects alongside biomedical topics
2. The website contains spelling and grammar errors
3. Images are distorted/fuzzy, intended to look like
something they are not, or which are unauthorized
4. The homepage targets authors with invitations
rather than targeting readers with contents
5. The Index Copernicus Value is promoted on the
website
(Shamseer et al, 2017)
33. 13 Salient Features Of Potential Predatory
Journals
6. Description of the manuscript handling process is
lacking
7. Manuscripts are requested to be submitted via
email
8. Rapid publication is promised
9. There is no retraction policy
10.Information on whether and how journal content
will be digitally preserved is absent
(Shamseer et al, 2017)
34. 13 Salient Features Of Potential Predatory
Journals
11.The Article processing/publication charge is very
low (e.g., < $150 USD)
12.Journals claiming to be open access either retain
copyright of published research or fail to mention
copyright
13.The contact email address is non-professional and
non-journal affiliated (e.g., @gmail.com or
@yahoo.com)
(Shamseer et al, 2017)
36. Index Copernicus
• Is an online database named after Nicolaus
Copernicus (who triggered the Copernican
Revolution) containing user-contributed
information, including scientist profiles established
in 1999 in Poland, and operated by Index
Copernicus International.
• It is controversial because it has a high proportion
of predatory journals included and its suspicious
evaluation methodology
38. “Predatory journals provide young researchers who may not
know better and academicians in search of quick publication
with a low barrier to publication. In too many settings,
promotions committees and other such bodies focus on the
number of publications rather than the quality of those
publications and the venues in which they appear. Thus,
predatory journals are likely to continue to prosper unless
such bodies and funders begin to routinely scrutinize the
quality as well as the quantity of their faculty’s publications,
not by excluding all online journals from consideration, but by
identifying acceptable journals according to quality criteria”
- Laine & Wincker, 2017