What is a predatory journal? A scoping review

F1000Research

Volumn 7, Issue , 2018, Pages

  Cobey, Kelly D ^a,b,c   Lalu, Manoj M ^a   Skidmore, Becky ^a   Ahmadzai, Nadera ^a   Grudniewicz, Agnes ^d   Moher, David ^a,b  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Illegitimate journals; Open access; Peer review; Predatory journals; Predatory publishers; Reporting quality; Scholarly publishing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMBASE; EMPIRICISM; ENGLISH (LANGUAGE); EXTRACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDLINE; PEER REVIEW; PSYCINFO; PUBLISHING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WEB OF SCIENCE; ECONOMICS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING; STANDARDS;

EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; MEDLINE; OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING; PEER REVIEW;

EID: 85052240789     PISSN: 20461402     EISSN: 1759796X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.15256.1     Document Type: Article

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