The Rise of Predatory Journals: What Difference Does It Make?
2015; Oxford University Press; Volume: 35; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/asj/sjv085
ISSN1527-330X
Autores Tópico(s)Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare
ResumoThe Internet has changed our world for the better in countless ways, such as providing us with the ability to rapidly share vital scientific information on a global basis. Yet, Internet technology has also spawned a very potent threat to the assumed credibility of published scientific research. This threat is the rise of so-called “predatory” open access (OA) journals. If you're like most plastic surgeons, you've received multiple emails inviting you to submit an article or serve on an editorial board of some heretofore-unknown OA journal, and you've considered it nothing more than a nuisance—more junk mail cluttering your inbox. But there are plenty of reasons you should be concerned about the rise of these annoying entities that threaten to negatively impact the integrity of information disseminated to the global scientific community and the public at large. When discussing this rather complicated subject, the first distinction that needs to be made is between predatory journals and legitimate OA journals. As discussed in a previous Aesthetic Surgery Journal editorial,1 open-access publishing was born in the early 1990s but did not gain substantial steam as a working business model until the period from 2000 to 2004. Since then, while the percentage growth of OA has declined, an infrastructure to confer legitimacy on OA journals that meet established standards has emerged, including the widely recognized indexing service, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ, www.doaj.org). Checking to see if an OA journal is indexed by DOAJ is one helpful way to determine whether it meets peer-reviewed journal standards. Another is to find out if the journal's publisher has … melissa{at}surgery.org
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