Publishing in Predatory Open Access Journals: A Case of Iran

Publishing Research Quarterly

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 433-444

  Erfanmanesh, Mohammadamin ^a   Pourhossein, Razieh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bogus journals; Predatory journals; Publishing scam

Indexed keywords

EID: 85036577024     PISSN: 10538801     EISSN: 19364792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12109-017-9547-y     Document Type: Article

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