Predatory journals: Perception, impact and use of Beall's list by the scientific community-A bibliometric big data study.

Predatory journals: Perception, impact and use of Beall's list by the scientific community-A bibliometric big data study.

Beall's list is widely used to identify potentially predatory journals. With this study, we aim to investigate the impact of Beall's list on the perception of listed journals as well as on the publication and citation behavior of the scientific community. We performed comprehensive bibliom...

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Main Authors: Georg Richtig, Marina Berger, Max Koeller, Markus Richtig, Erika Richtig, Jörg Scheffel, Marcus Maurer, Frank Siebenhaar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287547&type=printable

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