How predatory journals leak into PubMed

CMAJ

Volumn 190, Issue 35, 2018, Pages E1042-E1045

  Manca, Andrea ^a   Moher, David ^b   Cugusi, Lucia ^c   Dvir, Zeevi ^d   Deriu, Franca ^a  

^a Department of Biomedical Sciences ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^c OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; EDITORIAL; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; PEER REVIEW; POLICY; PREDATORY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING; PUBLICATION;

EDITORIAL POLICIES; OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBMED;

EID: 85052989681     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: 14882329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.180154     Document Type: Article

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