Economists behaving badly: publications in predatory journals

Scientometrics

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 749-766

  Wallace, Frederick H ^a   Perri, Timothy J ^b  

^a GULF UNIVERSITY FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Kuwait)

^b APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Open access; Predatory journals; Research Papers in Economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85042231104     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-018-2690-1     Document Type: Article

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