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Review
. 2016 Dec;31(12):1874-1878.
doi: 10.3346/jkms.2016.31.12.1874.

The Pressure to Publish More and the Scope of Predatory Publishing Activities

Armen Yuri Gasparyan  1 , Bekaidar Nurmashev  2 , Alexander A Voronov  3 , Alexey N Gerasimov  4 , Anna M Koroleva  5 , George D Kitas  6   7
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Review

The Pressure to Publish More and the Scope of Predatory Publishing Activities

Armen Yuri Gasparyan et al. J Korean Med Sci. 2016 Dec.

Abstract

This article overviews unethical publishing practices in connection with the pressure to publish more. Both open-access and subscription publishing models can be abused by 'predatory' authors, editors, and publishing outlets. Relevant examples of 'prolific' scholars are viewed through the prism of the violation of ethical authorship in established journals and indiscriminately boosting publication records elsewhere. The instances of ethical transgressions by brokering editorial agencies and agents, operating predominantly in non-Anglophone countries, are presented to raise awareness of predatory activities. The scheme of predatory publishing activities is presented, and several measures are proposed to tackle the issue of predatory publishing. The awareness campaigns by professional societies, consultations with information facilitators, implementation of the criteria of best target journals, and crediting of scholars with use of integrative citation metrics, such as the h-index, are believed to make a difference.

Keywords: Authorship; Best Target Journals; Citation Metrics; Open Access; Predatory Publishing; Professional Societies.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no potential conflicts of interest to disclose.

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