Pressure to publish: Index copernicus and predatory journals are helping (?) academicians

Publish and perish in the hands of predatory journals.

Predatory Journals: What are they?

Journal of Orthopaedic Case Reports | pISSN 2250-0685 | eISSN | Available on www.jocr.co.in | doi: 2321-3817 10.13107/jocr.2250-0685.330 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, p...

Not All Young Journals Are Predatory

Section Editor: Mark I. Langdorf, MD, MHPE Submission history: Submitted October 11, 2016; Accepted October 19, 2016 Electronically published December 6, 2016 Full text available through open access at http://escholarship.org/uc/uciem_westjem DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2016.10.32826 [West J Emerg Med. 2017;18(2)318.] Stony Brook University, Department of Emergency Medicine and Editor, Clinical and Ex...

Roadmap to Stop the Predatory Journals: Author\'s Perspective

Recent disgracing reports are warning the scientific communities to think more about the solutions to win the battle against predatory journals and publishers. Current integrity and accuracy in science is a result of decades of honest works and publications which are an asset, now everyone as stakeholders of science should feel the responsibility to sustain its high privileged level. The ethica...

Iranian Mental Health Researchers & Predatory Journals

Predatory journals exploit open access publication method; they do not carry out the peer review process and editorial assessment properly and publish unassessed articles for financial gain. According to a recent investigation published in the Lancet Psychiatry Journal, about 20% of authors or co-authors of articles published in predatory psychiatric journals have been Iranian. This substantial...