Digital Journals: The Real and The Predatory - Anesthesiology News

Jeffrey Beall's bookmarks 2016-04-07

Summary:

"As an active clinician, academic physician and editor involved in medical education and research, I have always reviewed the literature and have submitted papers to peer-reviewed journals. But over the past few years, I have observed an explosion in my inbox of emails inviting me to submit papers to online journals. This week alone, a few weeks after editing a volume of Critical Care Clinics, I have been invited to submit papers to more than 50 different online journals. Of course, my ego was highly inflated that all of these journals wanted my work. But after brief contemplation and upon reviewing the invitations, it was clear to me that these many invitations likely have a nefarious purpose. I clearly am no expert in engineering, nursing, biochemical research, geopolitics or some of the numerous other core terms in the titles of journals to which I am being invited to contribute. When you Google search 'anesthesia journal' you get hundreds of hits, including many well-known peer-reviewed journals, but there are many more I have never heard of ..."

Link:

http://www.anesthesiologynews.com/Commentary/Article/04-16/Digital-Journals-The-Real-and-The-Predatory/35835

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Date tagged:

04/07/2016, 10:04

Date published:

04/07/2016, 10:53