Sentences with phrase «of predatory journals»

This Star Wars scam again highlights the scourge of predatory journals.

In 2013, a Science investigation traced the publishers and editors of scores of predatory journals to India.

The journal's publisher once graced Jeffrey Beall's now - defunct list of predatory journals, which extract high fees from would - be authors and publish their work without proper peer review.

«The breadth and growth of predatory journals are astonishing and concerning,» says Jocalyn Clark, a public health researcher at the University of Toronto in Canada, and a veteran of scientific training and publishing in the developing world.

While most of the open - access journals you've heard of probably are legitimate, there are lots of predatory journals out there that don't do what they promise, including proper peer review.

Not exact matches

She has also campaigned against the predatory activities of formula companies, writing to HV practice journals such as «Community Practitioner», urging them to refuse advertising revenue from such companies.

The fake study, part of McCool's effort to expose predatory journals, was inspired by an episode in which Jerry gets in trouble for urinating in public.

Researchers from The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa analyzed 1,907 research papers published in 220 suspected biomedical predatory journals.

A massive investigation published in Nature shows that contrary to popular belief, a majority of papers in suspected biomedical predatory journals (57 percent) are from high or upper middle income countries, with many coming from prestigious institutions.

«We estimate that data from millions of patients and animals may be tucked away in predatory journals,» said Dr. Manoj Lalu, associate scientist and anesthesiologist at The Ottawa Hospital, assistant professor at the University of Ottawa and co-author of the study.

«Some predatory journals are very good at impersonating legitimate journals,» said Dr. Kelly Cobey, Publications Officer at The Ottawa Hospital, adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa and co-author of the study.

«While quality can be patchy even in legitimate journals, we found that it was far worse in suspected predatory journals,» said Larissa Shamseer, a PhD student at The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa and co-author of the study.

Only two of the authors said they were aware that the journal they published in was potentially predatory.

Understanding the importance of helping researchers publish their results transparently and avoid predatory journals, Dr. Moher founded the Centre for Journalology at The Ottawa Hospital in 2015.

Although thin and transparent, the tents are strong enough to protect the nymphs from predatory lacewing larvae, says Fletcher (Australian Journal of Entomology, DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.2011.00813.x).

This is an especially big problem in the life sciences, and it will take time to fix, says K. Vijayraghavan, the secretary of India's Department of Biotechnology (DBT) in New Delhi, which funded some of the research that ended up in predatory journals.

But a new analysis has found that many of the weak papers in predatory journals are coming from top - flight Indian research institutions.

Pushkar, the director of the International Centre Goa who goes by one name, says this move pushed teaching faculty with no expertise in research towards predatory journals.

Delving deeper, Gopalkrishnan Saroja Seethapathy, a graduate student in pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Oslo, and colleagues randomly chose 3300 papers by Indian first authors from 350 journals flagged as predatory by Jeffrey Beall, a library scientist at the University of Colorado in Denver.

By agreeing to these more stringent guidelines, the authors write, publishers and journals would have the chance to legitimize and advertise the relative quality of their peer review process in an age when predatory journals, which falsely claim to use peer review, continue to proliferate.

Members of Theropoda, the only clade of predominantly predatory dinosaurs, were successful predators partly due to a unique, deeply serrated tooth structure that allowed them to easily tear through the flesh and bone of other dinosaurs, according to a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports.

Derek Pyne found that most of his colleagues at the School of Business and Economics at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia, Canada have at least one paper in a predatory journal.

Retraction Watch: Why did you decide to look at how many of your colleagues in the business school have published in predatory journals?

Predatory journals — which charge high fees and often offer little - to - no vetting of research quality — are a problem, and lately an easy target for authors eager to spoof the problems of the publishing system.

Predatory journals have become the scourge of academic publishing over the last few years.

The problem this stunt reveals is that there are literally hundreds of sham predatory journals out there, and it's often quite difficult to identify a credible source.

Our results concerning the regional distribution of authorship can be compared with the results of Xia et al. [18] who studied the authorship distribution for seven pharmaceutical predatory journals, and Ezinwa Nwagwu and Ojemeni [19] who studied 34 journals from two Nigerian - based predatory publishers.

The journal is not merely obscure, but is published by SCIRP, a long - time entry on Jeff Beall's list of predatory publishers.