Negative effects of “predatory” journals on global health research

Annals of Global Health

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 584-589

  Forero, Diego A ^a   Oermann, Marilyn H ^b   Manca, Andrea ^c   Deriu, Franca ^c   Mendieta Zerón, Hugo ^d   Dadkhah, Mehdi ^e   Bhad, Roshan ^f   Deshpande, Smita N ^g   Wang, Wei ^h,i   Cifuentes, Myriam Patricia ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES   (Colombia)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^e FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

^f ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^g DR RAM MANOHAR LOHIA HOSPITAL   (India)

^h EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁱ CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH SCIENCE; HUMAN; PUBLICATION; SCIENTIST; MEDICAL RESEARCH; META ANALYSIS; OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PEER REVIEW; PROCEDURES;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85061861211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22149996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.29024/aogh.2389     Document Type: Article

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