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. 2025 Jan 7;25(1):e6875.
doi: 10.5867/medwave.2025.01.6875.

Predatory journals: What can we do to protect their prey?

[Article in English, Spanish]
Christine Laine  1 , Dianne Babski  2 , Vivienne C Bachelet  3 , Till W Bärnighausen  4 , Christopher Baethge  5 , Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo  6 , Frank Frizelle  7 , Laragh Gollogy  8 , Sabine Kleinert  9 , Elizabeth Loder  10 , João Monteiro  11 , Eric J Rubin  12 , Peush Sahni  13 , Christina C Wee  14 , Jin-Hong Yoo  15 , Lilia Zakhama  16
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Predatory journals: What can we do to protect their prey?

[Article in English, Spanish]
Christine Laine et al. Medwave. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Predatory journals; publication ethics; research integrity.

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Conflict of interest statement

CL reports employment by American College of Physicians and that her spouse has stock options in Targeted Diagnostics and Therapeutics. TB reports grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, German National Research Foundation, European Union, Germany Ministry of Education and Research, German Ministry of the Environment, Wellcome, and KfW; serving on scientific advisory boards for NIH-funded research projects in Africa on climate change and health; and small stock ownership (EUR 5000) in CHEERS, an SME focused on approaches to measure climate change and health in population cohorts. KB reports employment by the American Medical Association and relationships with and with University of California, San Francisco. EL reports employment by the British Medical Association. JM reports employment by Springer Nature. CW reports her role as Senior Deputy Editor of , employment by American College of Physicians, and teaching activities at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University, and Boston Medical Center for which she receives honoraria.

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