A Walk on the Wild Side: 'Predatory' Journals and Information Asymmetries in Scientific Evaluations

@article{Bagues2019AWO,
  title={A Walk on the Wild Side: 'Predatory' Journals and Information Asymmetries in Scientific Evaluations},
  author={Manuel Bagues and Mauro Sylos-Labini and Natalia Zinovyeva},
  journal={Microeconomics: Asymmetric \& Private Information eJournal},
  year={2019}
}
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