چکیده:
In recent years, scholarly publishing has been faced with many distractive phenomena. Generally, most researchers are unaware of fraudulent practices now common to scholarly publishing and are at risk of becoming a victim of them. Editors also need to have sufficient knowledge about these practices. There are papers that try to increase awareness of authors about fraud in scholarly publishing, but it seems that there is no good academic resource to direct editors. In this paper, we try to present a general guideline for increasing journal quality by discussing the emerging threats to scholarly publishing and methods to avoid being victimized.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Predatory publishers may use the open-access model, have exorbitant page charges, and publish papers with low quality or nonexistent peer review (Nolfi et al.
There have been valuable papers directing authors on writing and selecting suitable journals for publishing manuscripts, but these did not consider emerging issues in scholarly publishing (Huth, 1986; Klingner et al.
Also, research institutes must include emerging issues in scholarly publishing to their criteria for journal selection when advising the authors they support.
Guidelines for Editors In this section, we present general guidelines for increasing journals quality and protecting them against emerging issues in scholarly publishing.
Our guidelines are based on Beall’s criteria (Beall, 2015a; Dadkhah and Bianciardi; 2016) for predatory journal detection, but we tried to expand them and present some details based on our own observations.
Without authorization, predatory and hijacked journals sometimes include the names of standout researchers on their editorial boards, being careful to avoid using official email addresses.
Some journals publish all papers in the open access model, with all authors paying the OA fees.
The express purpose of these bogus impact factors is to convince authors to submit papers to fraudulent journals (Jalalian and Mahboobi, 2013; Jalalian, 2013; Gutierrez et al.
Popular misleading metrics (extracted from Jalalian (2015), with some additions) (View the image of this page)Special Issues To increase sales, predatory journals sometimes create special issues for publishing papers that are outside their journals’ aim and scope.
This can happen when editors use bogus metrics that were initially designed to attract authors to publish in predatory journals.