Being a deliberate prey of a predator – Researchers’ thoughts after having published in a predatory journal

LIBER Quarterly

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Shaghaei, Najmeh ^a   Wien, Charlotte ^a   Holck, Jakob Povl ^a   Thiesen, Anita L ^a   Ellegaard, Ole ^a   Vlachos, Evgenios ^a   Drachen, Thea Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Open access journals; Predatory journals; Researcher; Scholarly publishing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85064957337     PISSN: 14355205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18352/lq.10259     Document Type: Article

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