Study of Predatory Open Access Nursing Journals

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 624-632

  Oermann, Marilyn H ^a   Conklin, Jamie L ^b   Nicoll, Leslie H ^c   Chinn, Peggy L ^d   Ashton, Kathleen S ^a   Edie, Alison H ^a   Amarasekara, Sathya ^a   Budinger, Susan C ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Maine Desk LLC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Editorial standards; ethical issues; nursing journals; predatory journals; publishing

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTISTRY; E-MAIL; EDITOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NURSE; PEER REVIEW; PUBLISHING; STATISTICS; NURSING; OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING; PUBLICATION; STANDARDS; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; EDITORIAL POLICIES; HUMANS; NURSING; OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING; PEER REVIEW; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84990853006     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: 15475069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jnu.12248     Document Type: Article

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