Open access editor roles . . . and other stories | The BMJ

lterrat's bookmarks 2017-04-03

Summary:

"The arrival of the internet has spawned a growth in 'predatory' open access journals, which can generate vast mailing lists to bombard anyone with invitations to write about anything. Fortunately, the characteristic features of such journals are usually easy to spot, according to a survey by a group of medical editors and others (BMC Med doi: 10.1186/s12916-017-0785-9). Compared with legitimate journals, they have 10 times as many grammatical errors in their promotional material, and they tend to charge 10 times less to print per article. But the tables were turned when the pseudonymous Dr Szust (meaning 'fraud' in Polish) applied to 360 randomly selected open access academic journals asking to be an editor"

Link:

http://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.j1504

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » lterrat's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.journals

Date tagged:

04/03/2017, 00:08

Date published:

04/02/2017, 20:08