Citation contagion: a citation analysis of selected predatory marketing journals

Moussa, Salim

doi:10.1007/s11192-020-03729-6

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“…However, the scholarly search engine by Google covers "all output regardless of whether or not it is peer-reviewed" (Halevi et al, 2017, p. 825). Stated differently, the study by Moussa (2021a) does not offer a systematic assessment of citation contamination in a large sample of peer-reviewed marketing journals.…”

Section: Citation Contamination: a Definitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Citation contamination is a serious science integrity issue that should warrant the attention of researchers in every scientific domain or discipline. To the best of the author's knowledge, only Moussa (2021a) has dealt with citation contamination in the marketing discipline.…”

Section: Citation Contamination: a Definitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Partially entitled "citation contagion", the recent study by Moussa (2021a) is perhaps the first to provide solid evidence that some predatory marketing journals are being (extensively) cited, with some of them receiving thousands of citations from various sources, a few peerreviewed marketing journals included (see Moussa, 2021a, p. 500). Though it provides hard proof that some marketing journals are contaminated by citations to predatory journals, the study by Moussa (2021a) remains descriptive in nature and mainly focused on the predatory marketing journals, not the peer-reviewed marketing journals. Furthermore, it uses Google Scholar as the citation source.…”

Section: Citation Contamination: a Definitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Predatory journals are deceptive. Some of them falsely claim to be indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)-which is a community-curated online directory whose stated mission is to index and provide access to high-quality, OA, peer-reviewed journals (https://doaj.org/)-and have DOAJ's logo on their websites (Moussa, 2021a). The DOAJ provides, of course, a list of these deceptive journals (see https://docs.google.com/ spreadsheets/d/1Y_Sza4rPDkf-NNX9kwiErGrKeNTM75md9B63A_gVpaQ/edit#gid50).…”

Section: The Main Features Of a Predatory Journalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(4) Fourth, the predatory journal should be in existence for at least six years. Newly created predatory journals were not retained for analysis since they tend to receive very few citations (Moussa, 2021a). The four selected predatory journals were launched before 2014;…”

Section: Predatory Marketing Journalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Contamination by citations: references to predatory journals in the peer-reviewed marketing literature

Moussa¹

2021

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PurposePredatory publishing is a growing and global issue infecting all scientific domains. Predatory publishers create counterfeit, not (properly) peer-reviewed journals to exploit the open access (OA) model in which the author pays. The plethora of predatory marketing journals along with the sophisticated deceptive practices of their publishers may create total confusion. One of the many highly likely risks of that bewilderment is when peer-reviewed, prestigious marketing journals cite these pseudo-marketing journals. This phenomenon is called citation contamination. This study aims to investigate the extent of citation contamination in the peer-reviewed marketing literature.Design/methodology/approachUsing Google Scholar as a citation gathering tool, this study investigates references to four predatory marketing journals in 68 peer-reviewed marketing journals listed in the 2018 version of the Academic Journal Guide by the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABSs).FindingsResults indicate that 59 of the 68 CABS-ranked peer-reviewed marketing journals were, up to late January 2021, contaminated by at least one of the four sampled predatory journals. Together, these four pseudo-journals received (at least) 605 citations. Findings from nonparametric statistical procedures show that citation contamination occurred irrespective of the age of a journal or its 2019 Journal Impact Factor (JIF). They also point out that citation contamination happened independently from the fact that a journal is recognized by Clarivate Analytics or not.Research limitations/implicationsThis study investigated citations to only four predatory marketing journals in only 68 CABS-listed peer-reviewed marketing journals.Practical implicationsThese findings should sound an alarm to the entire marketing community (including academics and practitioners). To counteract citation contamination, recommendations are provided for researchers, practitioners, journal editors and academic and professional associations.Originality/valueThis study is the first to offer a systematic assessment of references to predatory journals in the peer-reviewed marketing literature.

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Section: Citation Contamination: a Definitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Citation Contamination: a Definitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Citation Contamination: a Definitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Main Features Of a Predatory Journalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Predatory Marketing Journalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Journal hijacking: Challenges and potential solutions

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Key points Hijacked journals mimic the name (and the ISSN) of a reputable journal with the sole purpose of financial exploitation. A hijacked journal is an even more pernicious scam than a predatory journal. Grounded in stakeholder theory, this opinion piece indicates that the hijackers are the sole stakeholder group that benefits from journal hijacking. Hijacked journals will continue to menace scholarly research and publishing unless all stakeholders take specific and coordinated actions against them.

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Analysis of publications by authors of Ukrainian institutes in Scopus‐delisted titles

Nazarovets

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In Ukraine, Scopus data are used to evaluate academics. Existing shortcomings in the Ukrainian evaluation system allow them to publish in titles that have been delisted from Scopus, and continue to use those papers as credible research output for evaluation. The purpose of this study was to analyse the publishing activity of Ukrainian institutions in Scopus-delisted titles (as of September 2021) in different fields between 2011 and 2020 and to attempt to appreciate how common this practice is among Ukrainian authors. Scopus was sourced to collect bibliographic and citations-related data, while SciVal was used to analyse these data. The findings suggest that for 17 Ukrainian institutions, papers from titles that have been delisted from Scopus still play an important part of the publication achievement of their employees. In particular, in the field of economics, econometrics and finance, 46.92% of Ukrainian papers were published in a title that was excluded from Scopus. Moreover, the analysis indicated that in two Ukrainian institutions, the level of citation of such papers significantly exceeds the average number of citations to Scopus-indexed papers in the same year and in the same field. Given that bibliometric indicators are also used for research assessment in other Eastern European countries, the results of this paper are applicable to a wider geographic context.

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Citation contagion: a citation analysis of selected predatory marketing journals

Cited by 22 publications

References 55 publications

Contamination by citations: references to predatory journals in the peer-reviewed marketing literature

Contamination by citations: references to predatory journals in the peer-reviewed marketing literature

Journal hijacking: Challenges and potential solutions

Analysis of publications by authors of Ukrainian institutes in Scopus‐delisted titles

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