Identifying publications in questionable journals in the context of performance-based research funding

PLoS ONE

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2019, Pages

  Eykens, Joshua ^a   Guns, Raf ^a   Rahman, A I M Jakaria ^a,b   Engels, Tim C E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CAREER; FUNDING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; WESTERN EUROPEAN; WRITING; ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING; PUBLICATION;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; AUTHORSHIP; HUMANS; OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLICATIONS; RESEARCH SUPPORT AS TOPIC;

EID: 85074726171     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0224541     Document Type: Article

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