Negative Effects of "Predatory" Journals on Global Health Research

• Main Authors: Diego A. Forero (Author), Marilyn H. Oermann (Author), Andrea Manca (Author), Franca Deriu (Author), Hugo Mendieta-Zerón (Author), Mehdi Dadkhah (Author), Roshan Bhad (Author), Smita N. Deshpande (Author), Wei Wang (Author), Myriam Patricia Cifuentes (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Ubiquity Press, 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Predatory journals (PJ) exploit the open-access model promising high acceptance rate and fast track publishing without proper peer review. At minimum, PJ are eroding the credibility of the scientific literature in the health sciences as they actually boost the propagation of errors. In this article,...