Beall's List Removed: What Stands Between Us and Open Access Predators?

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 130, Issue 8, 2017, Pages e371-e372

  Mimouni, Michael ^a   Braun, Eyal ^b   Mimouni, Francis B ^c,d   Mimouni, Daniel ^d,e   Blumenthal, Eytan Z ^a  

^a Rambam Health Care Campus ^*  (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFAMATION; DERMATOLOGIST; E-MAIL; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INTERNIST; LETTER; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING; PEDIATRICIAN; PEER REVIEW; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; LEGAL LIABILITY; POLITICS; PUBLICATION; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; STANDARDS; UNITED STATES;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; LIABILITY, LEGAL; OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; POLITICS; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85024497064     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2017.03.040     Document Type: Letter

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