The surge of predatory open-access in neurosciences and neurology

Neuroscience

Volumn 353, Issue , 2017, Pages 166-173

  Manca, Andrea ^a   Martinez, Gianluca ^a   Cugusi, Lucia ^b   Dragone, Daniele ^a   Dvir, Zeevi ^c   Deriu, Franca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

ethics in publication; open access; predatory journals; scientific publishing

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; AFRICA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DATA BASE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; INDIA; NEUROLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; PREDATORY OPEN ACCESS; PUBLICATION; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WEB BROWSER; BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMAN; PEER REVIEW; PUBLISHING; STANDARDS;

BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMANS; NEUROLOGY; NEUROSCIENCES; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING;

EID: 85018794596     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.04.014     Document Type: Article

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