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Jack-in-the- (in-)box: Beware of predatory journals
C.E. Medina-De la Garzaa,
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carlos.medina@uanl.mx

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, M.-C. Koschwitzb
a Immunology Department, “Dr. José E González” University Hospital, and Center for Research and Development in Health Sciences, UANL, Monterrey, Mexico
b Library, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
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Nevertheless&#44; there are still some young &#40;and not so young&#41; scholars who will indeed consider and accept such invitations in the face of pressure to publish and the struggle to achieve academic recognition&#44; institutional prestige or salary raise&#46; Sometimes&#44; the incoming proposal may seem real and serious&#44; and then one may indulge in giving credence to what they offer&#44; for at first sight&#44; they seem much like other journals&#46; Well&#44; It is open access&#44; and they charge scientists for publishing&#46; Moreover&#44; one may think&#58; better to publish anywhere than to perish with a not-so-great manuscript sleeping in a drawer or hard drive&#46;</p><p id="par0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The natural question arises&#44; though&#58; where does this avalanche of editorial proposals and invitations come from&#63; A more significant number of those e-mails spamming our inboxes originate from rather unknown journals&#46; Most of them never ever had a printed edition&#46; Some of them may be involved in unfair publishing practices and represent what is called &#8220;predatory journals&#46;&#8221;</p><p id="par0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">What is a &#8220;predatory&#8221; journal&#63; The word was coined by the University of Colorado librarian Jeffrey Beall to describe OA journals&#44; whose publishing practices exploit open access&#44; deceive authors and perform sub-standard peer-review&#44; among other practices&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> He published a Blog with a list of &#8220;potential&#44; possible or probable predatory scholarly open access journals&#8221; &#40;considered a &#8220;blacklist&#8221;&#41; which covered a wide range of fields&#44; from health sciences and chemistry to business and mathematics&#46; The list was posted on the internet in 2012 and suddenly unposted in January 2017 by Beall himself&#44; who recently disclosed his reasons for giving up his blog&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> Although his list may not have been exempt of bias and possible flaws&#44; 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growing from 53&#44;000 in 2010 to an estimated 420&#44;000 in 2015&#44; and the number of journals growing from 1800 to 8000 in the same period&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0085"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a></p><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0005"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">We will not analyze here if Beall&#39;s list or any other similar is right or wrong&#46; We acknowledge the fact that an essential issue &#40;among others&#41; pointed out by critics of predatory journals is their failing of proper peer review practices&#46; Peer review remains a fundamental matter&#44; the cornerstone of scientific publishing&#46; The problem is not open access&#58; the problem is the abuse of open access publishing system by those who may place academy and knowledge far behind a business interest&#46; Let&#39;s not forget&#44; however&#44; that to pay to get published is a working scheme with an inherent potential for a conflict of interest&#46;</p><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In 2003 a global index of open access journals was started &#40;Directory of Open Access Journals&#44; DOAJ&#41; to enhance visibility and use of OA&#46; The DOAJ seeks to promote higher standards and good publishing practices and has become a kind of whitelist that provides editorial information about more than 10&#44;000 journals &#40;<a id="intr0005" class="elsevierStyleInterRef" href="https://doaj.org/">https&#58;&#47;&#47;doaj&#46;org</a>&#41;&#46; The company Cabell&#39;s International recently started an internet platform where you may find a whitelist reviewing of ca&#46; 11&#44;000 journals including both subscription and OA&#44; in 18 disciplines &#40;to date medical journals are not reviewed&#41;&#44; and a blacklist where they analyze defined criteria to spot predatory practices &#40;<a id="intr0010" class="elsevierStyleInterRef" href="http://www.cabells.com/">www&#46;cabells&#46;com</a>&#41;&#46; It is a paid service&#44; and some institutions in developing countries may not have thus easy access to the listings&#46; Beyond this&#44; their work is much needed and provides insight into the publishing standards of many journals&#46;</p><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Facing new times&#44; we need to meet the challenge&#58; watch our own publishing culture and learn to be discerning about journals where to publish our work&#46; This is most relevant for developing countries&#44; young institutions&#44; and early career scientists&#46; Research supporting&#47;advising bodies usually are clear about where they expect papers to be published if academic recognition&#44; promotion&#44; salary rises and tenure are sought&#46; It is fair to expect institutional recommendations about where to publish or not&#46; Moreover&#44; institutions have already started to issue precise policies&#44; for example&#44; that only journals with an active impact factor listed in Web of Science&#39;s Journal Citation Reports &#40;JCR&#44; Clarivate Analytics&#44; formerly Thomson-Reuters&#41; be considered as proof of quality published research&#46; By deciding ourselves where to send our manuscripts&#44; we assume responsibility the same way we account responsible for its contents&#46; For trainees&#44; residents&#44; master and doctoral students&#44; this learning process itself will become a sign of scientific maturity&#46; They may get advice and learn to recognize predatory journals from cited literature&#44; or websites like <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Think-Check-Submit</span> &#40;thinkchecksubmit&#46;org&#41;&#46; Research leaders and mentors have a key role in raising awareness on practices and dangers of predatory journals and in the knowledge of tools and practices to avoid it&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0090"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">8</span></a> In a far-reaching perspective beyond deceit to authors&#44; predatory publishing poses a threat to science and the medical system&#58; published counterfeit&#44; substandard science may flood medical academia with unnecessary and potentially uncorrected publications<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0095"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span></a> and undermine the impact of real science in public policy&#44; 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