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Invitations received from potential predatory publishers and fraudulent conferences: a 12-month early-career researcher experience

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: This study aims to describe all unsolicited electronic invitations received from potential predatory publishers or fraudulent conferences over a 12-month period following the first publication as a corresponding author of a junior academician. STUDY DESIGN: Unsolicited invitati...

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Autores principales: Mercier, Eric, Tardif, Pier-Alexandre, Moore, Lynne, Le Sage, Natalie, Cameron, Peter A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5800329/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28912190
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/postgradmedj-2017-135097
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author Mercier, Eric
Tardif, Pier-Alexandre
Moore, Lynne
Le Sage, Natalie
Cameron, Peter A
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Tardif, Pier-Alexandre
Moore, Lynne
Le Sage, Natalie
Cameron, Peter A
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description PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: This study aims to describe all unsolicited electronic invitations received from potential predatory publishers or fraudulent conferences over a 12-month period following the first publication as a corresponding author of a junior academician. STUDY DESIGN: Unsolicited invitations received at an institutional email address and perceived to be sent by predatory publishers or fraudulent conferences were collected. RESULTS: A total of 502 invitations were included of which 177 (35.3%) had subject matter relevant to the recipient’s research interests and previous work. Two hundred and thirty-seven were invitations to publish a manuscript. Few disclosed the publication fees (32, 13.5%) but they frequently reported accepting all types of manuscripts (167, 70.5%) or emphasised on a deadline to submit (165, 69.6%). Invitations came from 39 publishers (range 1 to 87 invitations per publisher). Two hundred and ten invitations from a potential fraudulent conference were received. These meetings were held in Europe (97, 46.2%), North America (65, 31.0%), Asia (20.4%) or other continents (5, 2.4%) and came from 18 meeting organisation groups (range 1 to 137 invitations per organisation). Becoming an editorial board member (30), the editor-in-chief (1), a guest editor for journal special issue (6) and write a book chapter (11) were some of the roles offered in the other invitations included while no invitation to review a manuscript was received. CONCLUSIONS: Young researchers are commonly exposed to predatory publishers and fraudulent conferences following a single publication as a corresponding author. Academic institutions worldwide need to educate and inform young researchers of this emerging problem.
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spelling pubmed-58003292018-02-09 Invitations received from potential predatory publishers and fraudulent conferences: a 12-month early-career researcher experience Mercier, Eric Tardif, Pier-Alexandre Moore, Lynne Le Sage, Natalie Cameron, Peter A Postgrad Med J Cohort Study PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: This study aims to describe all unsolicited electronic invitations received from potential predatory publishers or fraudulent conferences over a 12-month period following the first publication as a corresponding author of a junior academician. STUDY DESIGN: Unsolicited invitations received at an institutional email address and perceived to be sent by predatory publishers or fraudulent conferences were collected. RESULTS: A total of 502 invitations were included of which 177 (35.3%) had subject matter relevant to the recipient’s research interests and previous work. Two hundred and thirty-seven were invitations to publish a manuscript. Few disclosed the publication fees (32, 13.5%) but they frequently reported accepting all types of manuscripts (167, 70.5%) or emphasised on a deadline to submit (165, 69.6%). Invitations came from 39 publishers (range 1 to 87 invitations per publisher). Two hundred and ten invitations from a potential fraudulent conference were received. These meetings were held in Europe (97, 46.2%), North America (65, 31.0%), Asia (20.4%) or other continents (5, 2.4%) and came from 18 meeting organisation groups (range 1 to 137 invitations per organisation). Becoming an editorial board member (30), the editor-in-chief (1), a guest editor for journal special issue (6) and write a book chapter (11) were some of the roles offered in the other invitations included while no invitation to review a manuscript was received. CONCLUSIONS: Young researchers are commonly exposed to predatory publishers and fraudulent conferences following a single publication as a corresponding author. Academic institutions worldwide need to educate and inform young researchers of this emerging problem. BMJ Publishing Group 2018-02 2017-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5800329/ /pubmed/28912190 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/postgradmedj-2017-135097 Text en © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted.
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Tardif, Pier-Alexandre
Moore, Lynne
Le Sage, Natalie
Cameron, Peter A
Invitations received from potential predatory publishers and fraudulent conferences: a 12-month early-career researcher experience
title Invitations received from potential predatory publishers and fraudulent conferences: a 12-month early-career researcher experience
title_full Invitations received from potential predatory publishers and fraudulent conferences: a 12-month early-career researcher experience
title_fullStr Invitations received from potential predatory publishers and fraudulent conferences: a 12-month early-career researcher experience
title_full_unstemmed Invitations received from potential predatory publishers and fraudulent conferences: a 12-month early-career researcher experience
title_short Invitations received from potential predatory publishers and fraudulent conferences: a 12-month early-career researcher experience
title_sort invitations received from potential predatory publishers and fraudulent conferences: a 12-month early-career researcher experience
topic Cohort Study
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5800329/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28912190
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/postgradmedj-2017-135097
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