The pressure to publish more and the scope of predatory publishing activities

Journal of Korean Medical Science

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1874-1878

  Gasparyan, Armen Yuri ^a   Nurmashev, Bekaidar ^b   Voronov, Alexander A ^c   Gerasimov, Alexey N ^d   Koroleva, Anna M ^e   Kitas, George D ^a,f  

^a RUSSELLS HALL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b South Kazakhstan State Pharmaceutical Academy ^*  (Kazakhstan)

^c KUBAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d STAVROPOL STATE AGRARIAN UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e TYUMEN INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Authorship; Best Target Journals; Citation Metrics; Open Access; Predatory Publishing; Professional Societies

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; PUBLISHING; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; PUBLISHING; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT;

EID: 84995555535     PISSN: 10118934     EISSN: 15986357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3346/jkms.2016.31.12.1874     Document Type: Article

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