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A credit-like rating system to determine the legitimacy of scientific journals and publishers.

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العنوان: A credit-like rating system to determine the legitimacy of scientific journals and publishers.
المؤلفون: Teixeira da Silva JA; Independent Researcher, Ikenobe 3011-2, P. O. Box 7, Kita-gun, Kagawa-ken 761-0799 Japan., Dunleavy DJ; Center for Translational Behavioral Science, College of Medicine, Florida State University, 2010 Levy Ave Building B, Tallahassee, FL 32310 USA., Moradzadeh M; Department of Medical Library and Information Science, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.; Health Services Management Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran., Eykens J; Centre for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
المصدر: Scientometrics [Scientometrics] 2021; Vol. 126 (10), pp. 8589-8616. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Aug 18.
نوع المنشور: Journal Article
اللغة: English
بيانات الدورية: Publisher: Springer Country of Publication: Switzerland NLM ID: 7901197 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 0138-9130 (Print) Linking ISSN: 01389130 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Scientometrics Subsets: PubMed not MEDLINE
أسماء مطبوعة: Publication: [Cham] : Budapest, Hungary : Springer : Akadémiai Kiadó
Original Publication: Amsterdam, Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co.
مستخلص: The predatory nature of a journal is in constant debate because it depends on multiple factors, which keep evolving. The classification of a journal as being predatory, or not, is no longer exclusively associated with its open access status, by inclusion or exclusion on perceived reputable academic indexes and/or on whitelists or blacklists. Inclusion in the latter may itself be determined by a host of criteria, may be riddled with type I errors (e.g., erroneous inclusion of a truly predatory journal in a whitelist) and/or type II errors (e.g., erroneous exclusion of a truly valid scholarly journal in a whitelist). While extreme cases of predatory publishing behavior may be clear cut, with true predatory journals displaying ample predatory properties, journals in non-binary grey zones of predatory criteria are difficult to classify. They may have some legitimate properties, but also some illegitimate ones. In such cases, it might be too extreme to refer to such entities as "predatory". Simply referring to them as "potentially predatory" or "borderline predatory" also does little justice to discern a predatory entity from an unscholarly, low-quality, unprofessional, or exploitative one. Faced with the limitations caused by this gradient of predatory dimensionality, this paper introduces a novel credit-like rating system, based in part on well-known financial credit ratings companies used to assess investment risk and creditworthiness, to assess journal or publisher quality. Cognizant of the weaknesses and criticisms of these rating systems, we suggest their use as a new way to view the scholarly nature of a journal or publisher. When used as a tool to supplement, replace, or reinforce current sets of criteria used for whitelists and blacklists, this system may provide a fresh perspective to gain a better understanding of predatory publishing behavior. Our tool does not propose to offer a definitive solution to this problem.
Competing Interests: Conflict of interestDD is an Associate Editor for Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry (https://www.springerpub.com/ethical-human-psychology-and-psychiatry.html), Consulting Editor for Social Work (https://academic.oup.com/sw), and an Editorial Board Member for Research on Social Work Practice (https://journals.sagepub.com/home/rsw), Social Work in Mental Health (https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wsmh20/current), and Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (https://www.springer.com/journal/10803). MM is a Managing Editor for International Journal of Health Policy and Management (https://www.ijhpm.com/). Other than these, the authors declare no relevant conflicts of interest.
(© Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary 2021, corrected publication 2021.)
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فهرسة مساهمة: Keywords: Predatory publishing; Academic publishing; Exploitative versus predatory behavior; Journal and publisher whitelists and blacklists; Legitimate journals and publishers; Predatory criteria; Scholarly versus unscholarly behavior; Type I and II errors
تواريخ الأحداث: Date Created: 20210823 Latest Revision: 20240405
رمز التحديث: 20240405
مُعرف محوري في PubMed: PMC8370857
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-021-04118-3
PMID: 34421155
قاعدة البيانات: MEDLINE
الوصف
تدمد:0138-9130
DOI:10.1007/s11192-021-04118-3