Spamming in scholarly publishing: A case study

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 2009-2015

  Kozak, Marcin ^a   Iefremova, Olesia ^a   Hartley, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

INTERNET; PUBLISHING;

OPEN ACCESS; OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS; PEER REVIEW; SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING; SPAM E-MAILS;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

DIRECTORY; E-MAIL; HUMAN; MODEL; PEER REVIEW; PUBLISHING; SCIENTIST;

EID: 84978998162     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23521     Document Type: Article

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