Scholarly databases under scrutiny

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2020, Pages 150-160

  Demir, Selcuk Besir ^a  

^a CUMHURIYET UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Beall s list; indices; potentially fake journals; predatory journals; publication fee; scholarly databases

Indexed keywords

EID: 85049681103     PISSN: 09610006     EISSN: 17416477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961000618784159     Document Type: Article

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