Predatory and Scam Journals
For some years now, and empowered by digitalisation and open access publication, a large number of falsely named scientific journals have appeared whose aim it is to take advantage of scientists' need to progress in their academic and hospital careers through ''publish or perish'...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya) |
| Repositorio: | Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:recercat.cat:2445/192529 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/192529 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Periodisme científic Estafa Accés obert Frau científic Revistes Scientific journalism Swindle Open access publishing Fraud in science Magazines (Periodicals) |
| Sumario: | For some years now, and empowered by digitalisation and open access publication, a large number of falsely named scientific journals have appeared whose aim it is to take advantage of scientists' need to progress in their academic and hospital careers through ''publish or perish'. Basedon several digital platforms,these journals, which have been called predatory and which we could call scam journals,facilitate the whole process of publication in a journal with a suggestive and appealing title which usually imitates that of a serious and consolidated journal to which they usu ally add an ending such as and ¨ research, and clinicalor ¨ a beginning such as American, ¨ British, International, etc..¨. They state that the text sent will be submitted to percep tive peer-review, which is actually nonexistent, in exchangefor a payment to publish |
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