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Predatory Publications in Scopus: Evidence on Cross-Country Differences

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  • Vit Machacek

    (Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Opletalova 26, 110 00, Prague, Czech Republic
    CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Politickych veznu 7, Prague 1, 111 21, Prague, Czech Republic)

  • Martin Srholec

    (CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Politickych veznu 7, Prague 1, 111 21, Prague, Czech Republic)

Abstract

The paper maps the infiltration of so-called "predatory" scholarly journals into the citation database Scopus. Using the names of "potential, possible, or probable" predatory journals and publishers on Beall's lists, we derived ISSNs of the respective journals from Ulrichsweb and searched Scopus with it. A total of 324 matched journals with 164 thousand documents indexed in Scopus over 2015-2017, making up a share of 2.8 % of the total articles have been identified. An analysis of cross-country differences in the tendency to publish in these journals reveals that overall the most affected are middle-income countries in Asia and North Africa. Kazakhstan is the country with the largest tendency to publish in predatory journals (18 %). More than 5 % is reported in 20 countries, including large countries such as Indonesia (18 %), Malaysia (11 %), India (10 %), or Nigeria (7 %). Neither developed countries are resistant to predatory publishing. More than 16 000 “potentially predatory†articles were published by authors from United States (0.67 %).

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  • Vit Machacek & Martin Srholec, 2019. "Predatory Publications in Scopus: Evidence on Cross-Country Differences," Working Papers IES 2019/20, Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies, revised Jul 2019.
    • Handle: RePEc:fau:wpaper:wp2019_20
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    Keywords

    Predatory journals; Beall’s list; open access; academic misconduct;
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    JEL classification:

    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
    • I29 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Other
    • O38 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Government Policy

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