Pros and cons of the new financial support policy for Turkish researchers

Demir, Selçuk Beşir

doi:10.1007/s11192-018-2833-4

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“…Akça and Akbulut (8) analyzed the predatory journals originating from Turkey on Beall’s list. Another study investigated the pros and cons of the new financial support policy for Turkish researchers (9).…”

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“…Therefore, it was worth investigating whether the initiation of the academic incentive allowance system has an impact on this. Demir's (9) work partially shed light on this subject.…”

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“…What were the contributions of the ex-post funding system to academic publishing? (9). He scanned the journals on Beall’s list to determine the number of articles published by Turkey over 2 years before (2014-2015) and after (2016-2017) implementation of the ex-post funding system.…”

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“…As shown in the data given above (7,8,9), when one examines the number of journals, publications, and editors from Turkey on Beall’s list, Turkey is among the top three countries. This shows the seriousness of the issue in our country.…”

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Predatory Publishing and Turkey

Koçak¹

2019

Balkan Med J

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“…Therefore, it was worth investigating whether the initiation of the academic incentive allowance system has an impact on this. Demir's (9) work partially shed light on this subject.…”

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Predatory Publishing and Turkey

Koçak¹

2019

Balkan Med J

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“…Akça and Akbulut (8) analyzed the predatory journals originating from Turkey on Beall's list. Another study investigated the pros and cons of the new financial support policy for Turkish researchers (9). Demir (7) carried out an important study investigating the characteristics of all journals included on Beall's list of standalone journals with accessible websites (832 journals).…”

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Predatory Publishing and Turkey

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2019

Balkan Med J

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Since the beginning of this century, widespread use of the internet and some weaknesses of the existing system have changed the scientific publishing model (1). This new model, wherein authors pay publishers for their services, is termed "open access". In the last decade, the number of open access journals and the articles they publish have increased rapidly, and some journals have gained a high level of scientific prestige in their field. Despite the rapid growth of the open access market, its share of the whole market remains small. According to an estimation by Delta Think (Carlin 2017), open access accounts for 20%-22% of market volume and 5%-9% of market value (2). This system provides rapid and open access to scientific information and data. However, some publishers do not hesitate to use this new model for unethical purposes and have begun to accept and publish scientific articles without a genuine peerreview process. Jeffrey Beall and his blog (Scholarly Open Access) played a key role in unveiling these unethical publishers and journals. He became interested in this topic when he received a spam e-mail in 2009. In 2010, he coined the term "predatory open

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