A growing number of entities misrepresent themselves as scholarly journals for financial gain despite not meeting scholarly publishing standards 1, 2. As editors and members of the International ...

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Action by all stakeholders is required to protect authors and the public from predatory medical journals, an international group of prominent medical journal editors said Monday. Predatory journals ...

It’s easy to believe something when a scientific study suggests it’s true. But what we often don’t know is where that study came from — and that’s a problem, experts say. “Predatory journals” are fake ...

Jan Šobotník, EJE Editor-in-Chief, promptly addressed a complaint to the predatory journal. "As the scientific work should always be accompanied by high ethical standards, I immediately wrote an ...

The practices that these entities employ include aggressive solicitation of manuscript submissions, the promise of extremely rapid turnaround times, and a lack of transparency about article submission ...

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