Not exact matches
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.
But a new analysis has found that many of the weak
papers in
predatory journals are coming from top - flight Indian research institutions.
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.
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.
Although many researchers try to steer clear, not all do — a recent
paper showed that some top economists publish
papers in potentially
predatory journals.