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How Frequently are Articles in Predatory Open Access Journals Cited
Abstract
Predatory journals are Open Access journals of highly questionable scientific quality. Such journals pretend to use peer review for quality assurance, and spam academics with requests for submissions, in order to collect author payments. In recent years predatory journals have received a lot of negative media. While much has been said about the harm that such journals cause to academic publishing in general, an overlooked aspect is how much...
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Title
How Frequently are Articles in Predatory Open Access Journals Cited
Published Date
Mar 26, 2020
Journal
Volume
8
Issue
2
Pages
17
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