Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.59549/n.164.3-4.5
Predatory journals: authors in great doubt
Kristina Romić
orcid.org/0000-0003-0418-7063
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Abstract
The emergence of journals and publishers of questionable quality has become
a major problem not only for scientific communication but also for the
development of science and human society. Such journals are published in
open access; they use the business model of charging costs to authors; and
at the same time, they do not conduct peer review but publish everything
without any criteria. Therefore, the basic feature of a journal of questionable
quality is the lack of selectivity in the manuscript selection process due to the
absence of a review process. It is extremely important that users (scientists,
but also the general public) know how to recognise such journals. The aim of
the paper is to investigate the appearance of journals and publishers of questionable
quality as an anomaly within the scientific communication model
moulded by scientific journals in the Croatian scientific community.
Keywords
black lists; open access; open access journals; predatory journals; predatory publishers; questionable quality journals; scientific communication; white lists
Hrčak ID:
311265
URI
Publication date:
13.12.2023.
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