The practices that these entities employ include aggressive solicitation of manuscript submissions, the promise of extremely rapid turnaround times, and a lack of transparency about article submission ...

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Action by all stakeholders is required to protect authors and the public from predatory medical journals, an international group of prominent medical journal editors said Monday. Predatory journals ...

The false idea that vaccines cause autism began when a fraudulent 1998 study was published by British doctor Andrew Wakefield — a claim that spread misinformation that continued for decades. “There ...

Researchers and academics are increasingly competing to submit their work to “predatory journals” — journals with titles similar to existing publications that many well-meaning academics are ...

Behind the polished facade of peer-reviewed journals lurks a growing epidemic of junk science — propped up by predatory publishers, ignored conflicts of interest, and research so bad it refuses to die ...

The research sector has become increasingly vulnerable to overt commercial predation. As academic and publishing business models, research evaluation and peer-review systems continue to evolve, they ...

(TNS) — The false idea that vaccines cause autism began when a fraudulent 1998 study was published by British doctor Andrew Wakefield — a claim that spread misinformation that continued for decades.

An editorial from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors recommends actions that authors, institutions, funders, journal editors, and publishers can take to protect against predatory ...