Hijacked journals, hijacked web-sites, journal phishing, misleading metrics, and predatory publishing: actual and potential threats to academic integrity and publishing ethics

Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 353-362

  Dadkhah, Mehdi ^a   Maliszewski, Tomasz ^b   Teixeira da Silva, Jaime A ^c  

^a Independent Research Scientist   (Iran)

^b POMERANIAN UNIVERSITY IN S UPSK   (Poland)

^c Miki cho Post Office   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; FRAUD; HUMAN; INTERNET; OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING; PEER REVIEW; PUBLICATION;

FRAUD; HUMANS; INTERNET; OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING; PEER REVIEW; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84976286975     PISSN: 1547769X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12024-016-9785-x     Document Type: Article

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