How do predatory medical journals try to seduce and fool potential authors?: Analysis of an 18-months monitoring survey
Background/Aim: Predatory medical publishers have developed - and still continue to develop - 'tricks' that are intended to fool potential authors with the objective to attract manuscripts. They do so because authors have to pay them article processing charges and these are commonly their...
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Medical Society of the Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, University of Banja Luka. Faculty of Medicine
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| description | Background/Aim: Predatory medical publishers have developed - and still continue to develop - 'tricks' that are intended to fool potential authors with the objective to attract manuscripts. They do so because authors have to pay them article processing charges and these are commonly their exclusive business model. Authors become ever more reluctant to publish in predatory journals because such journals are not considered as scientifically reliable and the articles in such journals are commonly not or hardly read (and even more rarely cited). Particularly young scientists can nevertheless be relatively easily seduced by the promises of predatory journals, which tend to approach potential authors in an aggressive way. This study aimed to analyse how often aggressive advertising is synonym for predatory. Methods: The 322 medical journals and their 105 publishers that approached us from 1 January 2023 to 1 July 2024 period with the request to contribute a manuscript were analysed. The analysis dealt with several aspects that may give insight into the trustworthiness of these journals and their publishers, viz the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN), the Editor-in-Chief, the publishing history, the publisher's location and the journal title. Results: Only 85 (26.3 %) of the journals under study had an Editor-in-Chief and 47 (14.6 %) of the journals had no ISSN. The great majority of the journals started after 2010; the journal titles seem aimed at raising confusion with established journals and many publishers were not housed where they pretend to be. Conclusions: Checking the above aspects of journals is an important tool helping recognise the predatory character of a journal. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-21f2850fbe2e41a4b1a42d08c5ad58022025-02-05T13:19:48ZengMedical Society of the Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, University of Banja Luka. Faculty of MedicineScripta Medica2490-33292303-79542024-01-0155665768410.5937/scriptamed55-523062490-33292406657VHow do predatory medical journals try to seduce and fool potential authors?: Analysis of an 18-months monitoring surveyvan Loon Olaf R.0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2833-7575van Loon Tom A.J.1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8906-1728Privat Klinik im Park, Therapy Department, Schinznach-Bad, SwitzerlandShandong University of Science and Technology, College of Earth Science and Engineering, Qingdao, Shandong, ChinaBackground/Aim: Predatory medical publishers have developed - and still continue to develop - 'tricks' that are intended to fool potential authors with the objective to attract manuscripts. They do so because authors have to pay them article processing charges and these are commonly their exclusive business model. Authors become ever more reluctant to publish in predatory journals because such journals are not considered as scientifically reliable and the articles in such journals are commonly not or hardly read (and even more rarely cited). Particularly young scientists can nevertheless be relatively easily seduced by the promises of predatory journals, which tend to approach potential authors in an aggressive way. This study aimed to analyse how often aggressive advertising is synonym for predatory. Methods: The 322 medical journals and their 105 publishers that approached us from 1 January 2023 to 1 July 2024 period with the request to contribute a manuscript were analysed. The analysis dealt with several aspects that may give insight into the trustworthiness of these journals and their publishers, viz the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN), the Editor-in-Chief, the publishing history, the publisher's location and the journal title. Results: Only 85 (26.3 %) of the journals under study had an Editor-in-Chief and 47 (14.6 %) of the journals had no ISSN. The great majority of the journals started after 2010; the journal titles seem aimed at raising confusion with established journals and many publishers were not housed where they pretend to be. Conclusions: Checking the above aspects of journals is an important tool helping recognise the predatory character of a journal.https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/2490-3329/2024/2490-33292406657V.pdfpredatory publishersmedical journalsscientific-information transfermisinformationscience ethics |
| spellingShingle | van Loon Olaf R. van Loon Tom A.J. How do predatory medical journals try to seduce and fool potential authors?: Analysis of an 18-months monitoring survey Scripta Medica predatory publishers medical journals scientific-information transfer misinformation science ethics |
| title | How do predatory medical journals try to seduce and fool potential authors?: Analysis of an 18-months monitoring survey |
| title_full | How do predatory medical journals try to seduce and fool potential authors?: Analysis of an 18-months monitoring survey |
| title_fullStr | How do predatory medical journals try to seduce and fool potential authors?: Analysis of an 18-months monitoring survey |
| title_full_unstemmed | How do predatory medical journals try to seduce and fool potential authors?: Analysis of an 18-months monitoring survey |
| title_short | How do predatory medical journals try to seduce and fool potential authors?: Analysis of an 18-months monitoring survey |
| title_sort | how do predatory medical journals try to seduce and fool potential authors analysis of an 18 months monitoring survey |
| topic | predatory publishers medical journals scientific-information transfer misinformation science ethics |
| url | https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/2490-3329/2024/2490-33292406657V.pdf |
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