Manuscript submission invitations from 'predatory journals': What should authors do?

Journal of Korean Medical Science

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 709-712

  Kebede, Mihiretu ^a,b   Schmaus Klughammer, Anna E ^c   Tekle, Brook Tesfaye ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR   (Ethiopia)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR PREVENTION RESEARCH AND EPIDEMIOLOGY BIPS   (Germany)

^c Deggendorf University of Applied Science   (Germany)

^d FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Predatory Journals; Predatory Publishers; Scholarly Open Access

Indexed keywords

PEER REVIEW; PUBLISHING;

PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PUBLISHING;

EID: 85017540576     PISSN: 10118934     EISSN: 15986357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3346/jkms.2017.32.5.709     Document Type: Article

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