Frontiers | Predator in the Pool? A Quantitative Evaluation of Non-indexed Open Access Journals in Aquaculture Research | Marine Science

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Summary:

"Predatory open access (OA) journals can be defined as non-indexed journals that exploit the gold OA model for profit, often spamming academics with questionable e-mails promising rapid OA publication for a fee. In aquaculture—a rapidly growing and highly scrutinized field—the issue of such journals remains undocumented. We employed a quantitative approach to determine whether attributes of scientific quality and rigor differed between OA aquaculture journals not indexed in reputable databases and well-established, indexed journals."

Link:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2018.00106/full

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Tags:

oa.new oa.ecology oa.indexing oa.gold oa.predatory oa.case oa.case.journals oa.quality oa.credibility oa.fees oa.journals

Date tagged:

03/30/2018, 11:19

Date published:

03/30/2018, 07:19