Does small equal predatory? Analysis of publication charges and transparency of editorial policies in croatian open access journals

Biochemia Medica

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 292-299

  Stojanovski, Jadranka ^a,b   Marušić, Ana ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZADAR   (Croatia)

^b RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Open access; Predatory journals; Small scientific communities

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; MODEL; NOMENCLATURE; PEER REVIEW; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLISHING; ACCESS TO INFORMATION; CROATIA; HUMAN; INTERNET; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING; PROCEDURES; PUBLICATION; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CROATIA; EDITORIAL POLICIES; HUMANS; INTERNET; JOURNALISM, MEDICAL; OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85020666308     PISSN: 13300962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11613/BM.2017.032     Document Type: Article

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