Predatory Journals Spamming for Publications: What Should Researchers Do?

Science and Engineering Ethics

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 1617-1639

  Memon, Aamir Raoof ^a  

^a People s University of Medical and Health Sciences for Women   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Editorial policy; Impact factor; Peer review; Predatory journals; Research fraud

Indexed keywords

CRIME VICTIM; FRAUD; HUMAN; INTERNET; PERSONNEL; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH; STANDARDS;

CRIME VICTIMS; FRAUD; HUMANS; INTERNET; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH; RESEARCH PERSONNEL;

EID: 85019248833     PISSN: 13533452     EISSN: 14715546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-017-9955-6     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Beall, J. (2013). Medical publishing triage: Chronicling predatory open access publishers. Annals of Medicine and Surgery, 2(2), 47–49. doi:10.1016/s2049-0801(13)70035-9
2. Beall, J. (2015). Be careful using NCBI databases as journal whitelists. https://scholarlyoa.com/2015/11/19/be-careful-using-ncbi-databases-as-journal-whitelists/. Accessed 7 Jan 2017
3. Beall, J. (2016a). Don’t use PubMed as a journal whitelist. https://scholarlyoa.com/2016/10/20/dont-use-pubmed-as-a-journal-whitelist/. Accessed 7 Jan 2017
4. Beall, J. (2016b). Questionable spam email from a Springer Nature Journal. https://scholarlyoa.com/2016/12/15/questionable-spam-email-from-a-springernature-journal/. Accessed 8 Jan 2017
5. Beall, J. (2017a). Beall’s list of predatory publishers 2017. https://scholarlyoa.com/2017/01/03/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers-2017/. Accessed 7 Jan 2017
6. Beall, J. (2017b). What I learned from predatory publishers. Biochemia Medica, 27(2), 273–279. doi:10.11613/BM.2017.029
7. Bloudoff-Indelicato, M. (2015). Backlash after Frontiers journals added to list of questionable publishers. Nature, 526(7575), 613. doi:10.1038/526613f
8. Bohannon, J. (2013). Who’s afraid of peer review? Science, 342(6154), 60–65
9. Casadevall, A., Bertuzzi, S., Buchmeier, M. J., Davis, R. J., Drake, H., Fang, F. C., et al. (2016). ASM journals eliminate impact factor information from journal websites. Infection and Immunity, 84(9), 2407–2408. doi:10.1128/iai.00564-16
10. Clark, J., & Smith, R. (2015). Firm action needed on predatory journals. BMJ, 350, h210. doi:10.1136/bmj.h210
11. Clark, A. M., & Thompson, D. R. (2016). Five (bad) reasons to publish your research in predatory journals. Journal of Advanced Nursing. doi:10.1111/jan.13090
12. Committee on Publication Ethics, Directory of Open Access Journals, Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, and World Association of Medical Editors. (2015). Principles of transparency and best practice in scholarly publishing. http://publicationethics.org/files/Principles_of_Transparency_and_Best_Practice_in_Scholarly_Publishingv2.pdf. Accessed 8 January 2017
13. Dadkhah, M., & Bianciardi, G. (2016a). Ranking predatory journals: Solve the problem instead of removing it! Advanced Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 6(1), 1–4. doi:10.15171/apb.2016.001
14. Dadkhah, M., & Bianciardi, G. (2016b). Unworthy peer review process and publishing method. Italian Journal of Medicine, 11, 1–4. doi:10.4081/itjm.2016.754
15. Dadkhah, M., & Jazi, M. D. (2015). Special issues as criterion for journal quality evaluation: Letter to Editor. Geographica Pannonica, 19(2), 42–43. doi:10.18421/GP19.02-01
16. Dadkhah, M., Maliszewski, T., & Teixeira da Silva, J. A. (2016). Hijacked journals, hijacked web-sites, journal phishing, misleading metrics, and predatory publishing: actual and potential threats to academic integrity and publishing ethics. Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology, 12(3), 353–362. doi:10.1007/s12024-016-9785-x
17. Dhulkhed, V. K., Kurdi, M. S., Dhulkhed, P. V., & Ramaswamy, A. H. (2016). Faculty promotions in medical institutions in India: Can we improve the criteria? Indian Journal of Anaesthesia, 60(11), 796–800. doi:10.4103/0019-5049.193657
18. Elmes, J. (2017). Journals blacklist creator blames university for website closure. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/journals-blacklist-creator-blames-university-website-closure. Accessed 3 July 2017
19. International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. (2016). Recommendations for the conduct, reporting, editing, and publication of scholarly work in medical journals. http://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf. Accessed 8 January 2017
20. Jalalian, M. (2015). The story of fake impact factor companies and how we detected them. Electronic Physician, 7(2), 1069–1072. doi:10.14661/2015.1069-1072
21. Jalalian, M., & Dadkhah, M. (2015). The full story of 90 hijacked journals from August 2011 to June 2015. Geographica Pannonica, 19(2), 73–87. doi:10.18421/GP19.02-06
22. Jawad, F. (2017). The race for publishing original biomedical research articles in Pakistan. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, 67(1), 1–2
23. Laine, C., & Winker, M. A. (2017). Identifying predatory or pseudo-journals. http://www.wame.org/identifying-predatory-or-pseudo-journals. Accessed 5 March 2017
24. Maaic, I., Begic, E., Donev, D. M., Gajovic, S., Gasparyan, A. Y., Jakovljevic, M., et al. (2016). Sarajevo declaration on integrity and visibility of scholarly publications. Croatian Medical Journal, 57(6), 527–529. doi:10.3325/cmj.2016.57.527
25. Masten, Y. B., & Ashcraft, A. S. (2016). The dark side of dissemination: Traditional and open access versus predatory journals. Nursing Education Perspectives, 37(5), 275–277. doi:10.1097/01.nep.0000000000000064
26. Memon, A. R. (2016). ResearchGate is no longer reliable: leniency towards ghost journals may decrease its impact on the scientific community. Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, 66(12), 1643–1647
27. Memon, A. R. (2017a). Beall’s list has vanished: What next? Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical, 47(3), 222–223. doi:10.2519/jospt.2017.0202
28. Memon, A. R. (2017b). Research publications and education in Pakistani medical universities: Avoiding predatory journals and improving the quality of research. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical, 67(6), 830–833
29. Memon, A. R. (2017c). End of 2016: Can we save research from predators in 2017? Science and Engineering Ethics. doi:10.1007/s11948-017-9915-1
30. Memon, A. R., & Waqas, A. (2017). Indexing by bibliographic databases of journals published in the developing world. Science and Engineering Ethics. doi:10.1007/s11948-017-9898-y
31. Moher, D., & Srivastava, A. (2015). You are invited to submit. BMC Medicine, 13, 180. doi:10.1186/s12916-015-0423-3
32. Petrişor, A.-I. (2016). Evolving strategies of the predatory journals. Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science, 21(1), 1–17
33. Pulla, P. (2016). Predatory publishers gain foothold in Indian academia’s upper echelon. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/12/predatory-publishers-gain-foothold-indian-academia-s-upper-echelon. Accessed 5 March 2017. doi: 10.1126/science.aal0526
34. Roberts, J. (2016a). Predatory journals: Illegitimate publishing and its threat to all readers and authors. The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 13(12), 1830–1833. doi:10.1016/j.jsxm.2016.10.008
35. Roberts, J. (2016b). Predatory journals: Think before you submit. Headache, 56(4), 618–621. doi:10.1111/head.12818
36. Shyam, A. (2015). Predatory journals: What are they? Journal of Orthopaedic Case Reports, 5(4), 1–2. doi:10.13107/jocr.2250-0685.330
37. Wahyudi, R. (2017). The generic structure of the call for papers of predatory journals: A social semiotic perspective. In Text-based research and teaching (pp. 117–136). Palgrave Macmillan UK. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-59849-3_7
38. Winker, M. A. (2016). Stop predatory publishers Now. Annals of Internal Medicine, 165(11), 826. doi:10.7326/l16-0416