Lancho Barrantes, B.S., Dalton, S. orcid.org/0000-0002-9639-8935 and Andre, D. (Cover date: July 2023) Bibliometrics Methods in Detecting Citations to Questionable Journals. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 49 (4). 102749. ISSN 0099-1333
Abstract
In recent times, there has been a proliferation of questionable practices in research publishing, for example, via predatory journals, hijacked journals, plagiarism, tortured phrases and paper mills. This paper intends to analyse whether journals that had been removed from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) in 2018 due to suspected misconduct were cited within journals indexed in the Scopus database. Our analysis showed that Scopus contained over 15 thousand references to the removed journals identified. The majority of the publications citing these journals came from the area of Engineering. It is important to note that although we cannot assume that all the journals removed followed unethical practices, it is still essential that researchers are aware of the issues around citing journals that have been suspected of misconduct. We suggest that research libraries play a crucial role in training, advising and providing information to researchers about these ethical issues of publication malpractice and misconduct.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Questionable journals; Predatory publishing; Research libraries; Citation contamination; Predatory journals |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Academic Services (Leeds) > Library (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 10 Aug 2023 14:46 |
Last Modified: | 10 Aug 2023 14:46 |
Published Version: | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.acalib.2023.102749 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:202205 |
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