Is the soundness-only quality control policy of open access mega journals linked to a higher rate of published errors?

Mohammadamin Erfanmanesh; Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva

doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03153-5

doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03153-5

Is the soundness-only quality control policy of open access mega journals linked to a higher rate of published errors?

Mohammadamin Erfanmanesh

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Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva

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Scientometrics3.90

Volume: 120, Issue: 2, Pages: 917 - 923

Published: Jul 5, 2019

Abstract

Open access mega journals (OAMJs) are broad and centralized open access journals that have come to represent profitable outlets for accumulating large volumes of research from multiple fields of study, including papers that are rejected from other journals by the same publisher. Some OAMJs charge hefty (exceeding US$1000) article processing fees. One characteristic of OAMJs is a large editorial board. In 2015, Bjork indicated that a primary...