Publishing in black and white: the relevance of listing of scientific journals

Rheumatology International

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 1773-1778

  Misra, Durga Prasanna ^a   Ravindran, Vinod ^b   Wakhlu, Anupam ^c   Sharma, Aman ^d   Agarwal, Vikas ^a   Negi, Vir Singh ^e  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b Centre for Rheumatology   (India)

^c KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^e JAWAHARLAL INSTITUTE OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Blacklist; Ethics; Indexing; Predatory journals; Publishing; Whitelist

Indexed keywords

AUTHOR; E-MAIL; EMBASE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDLINE; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; RHEUMATOLOGY; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCOPUS; SEARCH ENGINE; WEB OF SCIENCE; PUBLISHING;

PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING;

EID: 85030694525     PISSN: 01728172     EISSN: 1437160X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00296-017-3830-2     Document Type: Review

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