Scholarly databases under scrutiny

Demir, Selçuk Beşir

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“…Machácek and Srholec, 2016, Demir, 2018, Baker, 2016 Motivation of authors for publishing in predatory journals Frandsen, 2019, Omobowale et al, 2014, Shehata and Elgllab, 2018 Probes with flawed and nonsensical manuscripts Bohannon, 2013, Davis, 2009 Studies of article quality Oermann et al, 2018, McCutcheon et al, 2016 Citation studies Nwagwu andOjemeni, 2014, Andersson, 2019 The defining characteristics of what constitutes a predatory journal or publisher have over the years been debated. Beall originally used a list of 25 predatory practices and a number of less fraudulent practices as the basis for his blacklist (Beall 2012 b).…”

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How Frequently Are Articles in Predatory Open Access Journals Cited

2020

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Predatory journals are Open Access journals of highly questionable scientific quality. Such journals pretend to use peer review for quality assurance, and spam academics with requests for submissions, in order to collect author payments. In recent years predatory journals have received a lot of negative media. While much has been said about the harm that such journals cause to academic publishing in general, an overlooked aspect is how much articles in such journals are actually read and in particular cited, that is if they have any significant impact on the research in their fields. Other studies have already demonstrated that only some of the articles in predatory journals contain faulty and directly harmful results, while a lot of the articles present mediocre and poorly reported studies. We studied citation statistics over a five-year period in Google Scholar for 250 random articles published in such journals in 2014, and found an average of 2,6 citations per article and that 60 % of the articles had no citations at all. For comparison a random sample of articles published in the approximately 25,000 peer reviewed journals included in the Scopus index had an average of 18,1 citations in the same period with only 9 % receiving no citations. We conclude that articles published in predatory journals have little scientific impact.

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2020

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“… 6 We use Scopus rather than the Web of Science because it covers substantially more journals (Mongeon and Paul-Hus 2016 ) and is more susceptible to predators (Demir 2020 ; Somoza-Fernández 2016 ). …”

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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Predatory publishing in Scopus: evidence on cross-country differences

Macháček

Srholec

2021

Scientometrics

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Predatory publishing represents a major challenge to scholarly communication. This paper maps the infiltration of journals suspected of predatory practices into the citation database Scopus and examines cross-country differences in the propensity of scholars to publish in such journals. Using the names of “potential, possible, or probable” predatory journals and publishers on Beall’s lists, we derived the ISSNs of 3,293 journals from Ulrichsweb and searched Scopus with them. 324 of journals that appear both in Beall’s lists and Scopus with 164 thousand articles published over 2015–2017 were identified. Analysis of data for 172 countries in 4 fields of research indicates that there is a remarkable heterogeneity. In the most affected countries, including Kazakhstan and Indonesia, around 17% of articles fall into the predatory category, while some other countries have no predatory articles whatsoever. Countries with large research sectors at the medium level of economic development, especially in Asia and North Africa, tend to be most susceptible to predatory publishing. Arab, oil-rich and/or eastern countries also appear to be particularly vulnerable. Policymakers and stakeholders in these and other developing countries need to pay more attention to the quality of research evaluation. Supplementary information The online version contains supplementary material available at (10.1007/s11192-020-03852-4).

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“…Machácek and Srholec found that of the journals included in Beall's list, 3218 were indexed in Ulrichsweb and 405 in Scopus [30]. Demir found that of the 2708 journals in Beall's list that he studied, only three were in also the Web of Science and 53 in Scopus [31]. Reasons for this could be that either a journal that clearly is predatory has by mistake been included in the more rigorous indices, or that a journal has mistakenly been included in Beall's list, when it should not.…”

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confidence: 99%

How frequently are articles in predatory open access journals cited

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Kanto-Karvonen²,

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2020

ESPE

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Predatory journals are Open Access journals of highly questionable scientific quality. Such journals pretend to use peer review for quality assurance, and spam academics with requests for submissions, in order to collect author payments. In recent years predatory journals have received a lot of negative media. While much has been said about the harm that such journals cause to academic publishing in general, an overlooked aspect is how much articles in such journals are actually read and in particular cited, that is if they have any significant impact on the research in their fields. Other studies have already demonstrated that only some of the articles in predatory journals contain faulty and directly harmful results, while a lot of the articles present mediocre and poorly reported studies. We studied citation statistics over a five-year period in Google Scholar for 250 random articles published in such journals in 2014 and found an average of 2.6 citations per article, and that 56% of the articles had no citations at all. For comparison, a random sample of articles published in the approximately 25,000 peer reviewed journals included in the Scopus index had an average of 18, 1 citations in the same period with only 9% receiving no citations. We conclude that articles published in predatory journals have little scientific impact.

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Scholarly databases under scrutiny

Cited by 27 publications

References 53 publications

How Frequently Are Articles in Predatory Open Access Journals Cited

How Frequently Are Articles in Predatory Open Access Journals Cited

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Predatory publishing in Scopus: evidence on cross-country differences

How frequently are articles in predatory open access journals cited

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