• DOI:10.3390/publications8020017
Corpus ID: 209444511

How Frequently are Articles in Predatory Open Access Journals Cited

@article{Bjrk2020HowFA,
  title={How Frequently are Articles in Predatory Open Access Journals Cited},
  author={Bo-Christer Bj{\"o}rk and S. Kanto-Karvonen and J. T. Harviainen},
  journal={Publ.},
  year={2020},
  volume={8},
  pages={17}
}

Bo-Christer Björk, S. Kanto-Karvonen, J. T. Harviainen

Published 2020

Psychology, Computer Science

Publ.

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… CONTINUE READING

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