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- Title
Ethical issues in publishing in predatory journals.
- Authors
Ferris, Lorraine E.; Winker, Margaret A.
- Abstract
Predatory journals, or journals that charge an article processing charge (APC) to authors, yet do not have the hallmarks of legitimate scholarly journals such as peer review and editing, Editorial Boards, editorial offices, and other editorial standards, pose a number of new ethical issues in journal publishing. This paper discusses ethical issues around predatory journals and publishing in them. These issues include misrepresentation; lack of editorial and publishing standards and practices; academic deception; research and funding wasted; lack of archived content; and undermining confidence in research literature. It is important that the scholarly community, including authors, institutions, editors, and publishers, support the legitimate scholarly research enterprise, and avoid supporting predatory journals by not publishing in them, serving as their editors or on the Editorial Boards, or permitting faculty to knowingly publish in them without consequences.
- Subjects
PREDATORY publishing; OPEN access publishing; SCHOLARLY electronic publishing; PERIODICAL publishing; RESEARCH ethics; ETHICS
- Publication
Biochemia Medica, 2017, Vol 27, Issue 2, p279
- ISSN
1330-0962
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.11613/BM.2017.030