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Is there anything to choose?
>10.500 indexed journals (Thompson Reuters JCR)
>8000 active predatory journals1
Predatory journal: a journal that actively solicit manuscripts and charge publication fees without providing robust peer review and editorial service
Non‐existent peer review, fake impact factors, fake editors and misleading journal names similar to well‐known, legitimate journals.
1 Shen and Bjork; BMC Medicine 2015
Moher et al, Nature, 2017
Threat for
a) The integrety of science
• No peer review proces, which remains the fairest way of blue stamping research b) Ethical standards
c) The individual researcher
• Risk of wasted research (reads, citations, impact)
• Scientific performance is still mainly measured with publications but not just how many....
• Metrics
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