The companies publishing predatory journals are an emerging problem in the area of
scientific literature as they only seek to drain money from authors without providing any …

Predatory journals (PJ) exploit the open-access model promising high acceptance rate and
fast track publishing without proper peer review. At minimum, PJ are eroding the credibility of …

Publishing in predatory journals has been described as a ''waste of people, animals and
money''(Moher et al. 2017). Because predatory journals were assumed not to be indexed in …

Purpose: Academic and other researchers have limited tools with which to address the
current proliferation of predatory and hijacked journals. These journals can have negative …

Objectives Paper mills, companies that write scientific papers and gain acceptance for them,
then sell authorships of these papers, present a key challenge in medicine and other …

Academic journals, archives, and repositories are seeing an increasing number of
questionable research papers clearly produced using generative AI. They are often created …

Objectives The number of predatory journals is increasing in the scholarly communication
realm. These journals use questionable business practices, minimal or no peer review, or …

This article presents an editorial perspective on the challenges associated with e-mail
management for academic physicians. We include 2-week analysis of our own e-mails as …

Objective: Given that often the quality of journals is based on its editors, the objective of this
study was to describe quantitatively the profiles of members of editorial boards (MEBs) of …

Questionable journals represent an increasing problem in scholarly communication. The
warnings about such journals are plentiful, but the methods used to identify them vary a …