The surge of predatory open-access in neurosciences and neurology

Highlights • Predatory open-access threatens the credibility of genuine open-access publishing, particularly in biomedical research. • Predatory journals retrieved in neuroscience and neurology are not listed in the DOAJ, Scopus and MEDLINE. • 11% and 20% of predatory journals retrieved in neuroscie...

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Published in:Neuroscience 2017-06, Vol.353, p.166-173
Main Authors: Manca, Andrea, Martinez, Gianluca, Cugusi, Lucia, Dragone, Daniele, dvir, Zeevi, Deriu, Franca
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bibliometrics
ethics in publication
Humans
Neurology
Neurology - standards
Neurosciences - standards
open access
Peer Review, Research - standards
Periodicals as Topic - standards
predatory journals
Publishing - standards
scientific publishing
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Summary:Highlights • Predatory open-access threatens the credibility of genuine open-access publishing, particularly in biomedical research. • Predatory journals retrieved in neuroscience and neurology are not listed in the DOAJ, Scopus and MEDLINE. • 11% and 20% of predatory journals retrieved in neuroscience and neurology, respectively, are indexed in PubMed. • Predatory journals outnumber legitimate journals in neurology (108 versus 73). • Methodological steps are provided to help scholars identify predatory practices when submitting to open-access journals.
ISSN:0306-4522
1873-7544
DOI:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.04.014