Sentences with phrase «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.

We also wanted to estimate the average publishing speed (submission to publication) of predatory journals as well as the geographical spread of authors.

The researchers also made a list of the top institutions publishing in their sample of suspected predatory journals and attempted to contact the corresponding authors.

Although many researchers try to steer clear, not all do — a recent paper showed that some top economists publish papers in potentially predatory journals.

Growth in article numbers within predatory journals has in the past two years mainly occurred in the two lowest strata, which tend to have much higher annual publication volumes.

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

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.

Largely unknown a decade ago, there are now an estimated 8,000 predatory journals collectively publishing more than 400,000 research studies each year.

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.

«The research component in the performance metrics for faculty in teaching - focused institutions is the reason why predatory journals attract so many submissions,» he told Science.

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.

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.

The average delay for the OA journals in that study was 5.9 months, thus clearly shorter than for subscription journals but longer than for predatory journals.

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.

«For example, clinical trials published in predatory journals are much less likely to provide information on research ethics approval, trial registration and randomization into treatment groups.

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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.

The researchers also attempted to judge the quality of the suspected predatory journal papers using adapted versions of widely accepted reporting guideline checklists.

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.

That institutions and especially donors are not doing more to ensure their scientists» work is not lost to predatory journals is, to me, a scandal.»

«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.

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.

Dr. David Moher and his team from The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa found that predatory journals are a global problem and high income countries are not immune.

Predatory journals are also difficult to search, meaning that health - care providers and researchers can rarely learn from the data in these journals.

«Our research debunks the common belief that predatory journals are only a problem in low income countries,» said senior author Dr. David Moher, a senior scientist at The Ottawa Hospital and associate professor at the University of Ottawa in Canada.

«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.

«Predatory journals a global problem: Investigation reveals high income countries not immune.»

«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.

«Predatory journals publish research from scientists around the world, including those based at prestigious high income institutions.»

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.

«Funding agencies have to be careful about where papers are published,» says Subhash Chandra Lakhotia, a cytogeneticist at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, which is a source of some papers in predatory journals.

And last year, a team reported in BMC Medicine that of a selection of 262 authors published in predatory journals, 35 % were Indian.

Beall, meanwhile, notes that in the year since this sting began, «the number of predatory publishers and predatory journals has continued to escalate at a rapid pace.»

BENGALURU, INDIA — India is home to a flourishing community of predatory journals: outlets that masquerade as legitimate scientific publications but publish papers with little or no peer review while charging authors hefty fees.

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

Predatory journals have to be eliminated.

Add in the technique of submitting to journals that aren't really in the field at all, or, more recently, submitting to predatory journals that perform only perfunctory review (if any).

Continue reading When most faculty publish in predatory journals, does the school become «complicit?»

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.

One journalist set out to test the credibility of several «predatory journals» by writing a fictional research paper inspired by the science of Star Wars.

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.

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

The problem of empty placeholder journals is a problem specific to predatory journals.