Readers beware! Predatory journals are infiltrating citation databases

Anna Severin^{1

2

3}, Nicola Low⁴

Affiliations

¹ Swiss National Science Foundation, Bern, Switzerland.
² Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Mittelstrasse 43, 3012, Bern, Switzerland.
³ Graduate School of Health Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
⁴ Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Mittelstrasse 43, 3012, Bern, Switzerland. nicola.low@ispm.unibe.ch.

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Anna Severin et al. Int J Public Health. 2019 Nov.

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. 2019 Nov;64(8):1123-1124.

doi: 10.1007/s00038-019-01284-3. Epub 2019 Jul 24.

Anna Severin^{1

2

3}, Nicola Low⁴

¹ Swiss National Science Foundation, Bern, Switzerland.
² Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Mittelstrasse 43, 3012, Bern, Switzerland.
³ Graduate School of Health Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
⁴ Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Mittelstrasse 43, 3012, Bern, Switzerland. nicola.low@ispm.unibe.ch.

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Inclusion of predatory journals in Scopus is inflating scholars' metrics and advancing careers.
Cortegiani A, Manca A, Lalu M, Moher D. Cortegiani A, et al. Int J Public Health. 2020 Jan;65(1):3-4. doi: 10.1007/s00038-019-01318-w. Epub 2019 Dec 10. Int J Public Health. 2020. PMID: 31822951 No abstract available.