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This template is placed after a reference to a predatory journal. It identifies it as an unreliable source . Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox ( create | mirror ) and testcases ( create ) pages.
The article, in fact written a decade earlier by David Mazières and Eddie Kohler, was titled "Get me off your fucking mailing list" and consisted of the phrase "Get me off your fucking mailing list" being repeated for the entirety of the article body. The journal requested the researcher to "add some more recent references and do a bit of ...
Various journal review websites (crowd-sourced or expert-run) have been started, some focusing on the quality of the peer review process and extending to non-OA publications. [127] [128] A group of libraries and publishers launched an awareness campaign. [129] [130] A number of measures have been suggested to further combat predatory journals.
A journal article is probably not reliable for biomedical claims if its publisher has a reputation for exhibiting "predatory" behavior, which includes questionable business practices and/or peer-review processes that raise concerns about the reliability of their journal articles. (See also WP:RS#Predatory journals and the #References section ...
The peer review provided by PLOS ONE was reported to be the most rigorous of all, and it was the only journal that identified the paper's ethical problems, for example the lack of documentation of how animals were treated in the creation of the cancer cell lines. [2]
This template holds a list of predatory open access journals and publishers for MediaWiki:Abusefilter-warning-predatory, so that it can be edited by non-administrators. It should always be kept synchronized with Special:AbuseFilter/891.
Publishing in a predatory journal, knowingly or unknowingly, was discussed as a form of potential scientific misconduct. [26] [27] The peer-review process can have limitations when considering research outside the conventional scientific paradigm: social factors such as "groupthink" can interfere with open and fair deliberation of new research ...
Beall first became interested in predatory open-access journals (a term he coined) in 2008, when he started to receive numerous requests from dubious journals to serve on their editorial boards. He said that he "immediately became fascinated because most of the e-mails contained numerous grammatical errors."