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Predatory journals recruit fake editor

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  • Piotr Sorokowski

    (Piotr Sorokowski is head of the Institute of Psychology at the University of Wrocław, Poland.)

  • Emanuel Kulczycki

    (Emanuel Kulczycki is head of the Scholarly Communication Research Group at the Institute of Philosophy at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.)

  • Agnieszka Sorokowska

    (Agnieszka Sorokowska is a researcher at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Wrocław, Poland, and the Smell &
    Taste Clinic, TU Dresden, Germany.)

  • Katarzyna Pisanski

    (Katarzyna Pisanski is a researcher in the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, and the Institute of Psychology at the University of Wrocław, Poland.)

Abstract

An investigation finds that dozens of academic titles offered 'Dr Fraud' — a sham, unqualified scientist — a place on their editorial board. Katarzyna Pisanski and colleagues report.

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  • Piotr Sorokowski & Emanuel Kulczycki & Agnieszka Sorokowska & Katarzyna Pisanski, 2017. "Predatory journals recruit fake editor," Nature, Nature, vol. 543(7646), pages 481-483, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:543:y:2017:i:7646:d:10.1038_543481a
    DOI: 10.1038/543481a
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    1. Bagues, Manuel & Sylos-Labini, Mauro & Zinovyeva, Natalia, 2019. "A walk on the wild side: ‘Predatory’ journals and information asymmetries in scientific evaluations," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 48(2), pages 462-477.
    2. Salim Moussa, 2021. "Citation contagion: a citation analysis of selected predatory marketing journals," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 126(1), pages 485-506, January.
    3. Dell'Anno, Roberto & Caferra, Rocco & Morone, Andrea, 2020. "A “Trojan Horse” in the peer-review process of fee-charging economic journals," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 14(3).
    4. You, Taekho & Park, Jinseo & Lee, June Young & Yun, Jinhyuk & Jung, Woo-Sung, 2022. "Disturbance of questionable publishing to academia," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 16(2).
    5. Lukasz Prorokowski, 2021. "Predatory conferences in economics and finance," Bank i Kredyt, Narodowy Bank Polski, vol. 52(1), pages 77-96.
    6. Demir, Selcuk Besir, 2018. "Predatory journals: Who publishes in them and why?," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 12(4), pages 1296-1311.
    7. Emanuel Kulczycki & Marek Hołowiecki & Zehra Taşkın & Franciszek Krawczyk, 2021. "Citation patterns between impact-factor and questionable journals," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 126(10), pages 8541-8560, October.

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