Presence of alleged predatory journals in bibliographic databases: Analysis of beall's list

Profesional de la Informacion

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 730-737

  Somoza Fernández, Marta ^a   Rodríguez Gairín, Josep Manuel ^a   Urbano, Cristóbal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Beall's list; Bibliographic databases; Journal evaluation; MIAR; Open access; Predatory journals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992626187     PISSN: 13866710     EISSN: 16992407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3145/epi.2016.sep.03     Document Type: Article

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