Evolving strategies of the predatory journals

Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-17

  Petrisor, Alexandru Ionut ^a,b  

^a ION MINCU UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM   (Romania)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN MICROTECHNOLOGIES   (Romania)

Author keywords

Journal Impact Factor; Journal studies; Open Access journals; Predatory journals; Trustworthiness

Indexed keywords

EID: 85035061366     PISSN: 13946234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22452/mjlis.vol21no1.1     Document Type: Article

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