No big news for scientists: Journalists recently uncovered a scandal surrounding predatory journals. What happened? | Arndt Leininger | Zenodo

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Summary:

"Storm in a teacup: predatory journals are irrelevant

This opinion piece provides a researcher's view on the role of predatory journals for scientists. It is a reaction to an inverstigation, published by German public television stations WDR and NDR as well as the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitunge about "fake science" that is described in these publications as a scandal. ..."

Arndt Leininger. (2018). No big news for scientists: Journalists recently uncovered a scandal surrounding predatory journals. What happened?. Elephant in the Lab. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1326406

 

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https://zenodo.org/record/1326406

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oa.new oa.trends oa.misconduct oa.predatory oa.prestige oa.quality oa.credibility oa.open_science oa.germany oa.journalism

Date tagged:

08/13/2018, 11:21

Date published:

08/13/2018, 07:21