Characteristics of Hijacked Journals and Predatory Publishers: Our Observations in the Academic World

Trends in Pharmacological Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 415-418

  Dadkhah, Mehdi ^a   Maliszewski, Tomasz ^b   Jazi, Mohammad Davarpanah ^a  

^a Foulad Institute of Technology   (Iran)

^b POMERANIAN UNIVERSITY IN S UPSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

academic eminence; academic world; hijacked journals; paper hijacking; predatory publisher

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PAPER INDUSTRY; PEER REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; WEB BROWSER; ECONOMICS; INTERNET; RESEARCH; STANDARDS;

HUMANS; INTERNET; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH;

EID: 84975138774     PISSN: 01656147     EISSN: 18733735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tips.2016.04.002     Document Type: Note

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