Predatory publishing in Scopus: evidence on cross-country differences

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11640%2F21%3A00542241" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11640/21:00542241 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03852-4" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03852-4</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03852-4" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11192-020-03852-4</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Predatory publishing in Scopus: evidence on cross-country differences

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Predatory publishing represents a major challenge to scholarly communication. This paper maps the infiltration of journals suspected of predatory practices into the citation database Scopus and examines cross-country differences in the propensity of scholars to publish in such journals. Using the names of “potential, possible, or probable” predatory journals and publishers on Beall’s lists, we derived the ISSNs of 3,293 journals from Ulrichsweb and searched Scopus with them. 324 of journals that appear both in Beall’s lists and Scopus with 164 thousand articles published over 2015–2017 were identified. Analysis of data for 172 countries in 4 fields of research indicates that there is a remarkable heterogeneity. In the most affected countries, including Kazakhstan and Indonesia, around 17% of articles fall into the predatory category, while some other countries have no predatory articles whatsoever. Countries with large research sectors at the medium level of economic development, especially in Asia and North Africa, tend to be most susceptible to predatory publishing. Arab, oil-rich and/or eastern countries also appear to be particularly vulnerable. Policymakers and stakeholders in these and other developing countries need to pay more attention to the quality of research evaluation.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Predatory publishing in Scopus: evidence on cross-country differences

Popis výsledku anglicky

Predatory publishing represents a major challenge to scholarly communication. This paper maps the infiltration of journals suspected of predatory practices into the citation database Scopus and examines cross-country differences in the propensity of scholars to publish in such journals. Using the names of “potential, possible, or probable” predatory journals and publishers on Beall’s lists, we derived the ISSNs of 3,293 journals from Ulrichsweb and searched Scopus with them. 324 of journals that appear both in Beall’s lists and Scopus with 164 thousand articles published over 2015–2017 were identified. Analysis of data for 172 countries in 4 fields of research indicates that there is a remarkable heterogeneity. In the most affected countries, including Kazakhstan and Indonesia, around 17% of articles fall into the predatory category, while some other countries have no predatory articles whatsoever. Countries with large research sectors at the medium level of economic development, especially in Asia and North Africa, tend to be most susceptible to predatory publishing. Arab, oil-rich and/or eastern countries also appear to be particularly vulnerable. Policymakers and stakeholders in these and other developing countries need to pay more attention to the quality of research evaluation.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50803 - Information science (social aspects)

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA17-09265S" target="_blank" >GA17-09265S: Hranice empirického výzkumu veřejného financování podnikového VaV a inovací</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Scientometrics

ISSN

0138-9130

e-ISSN

1588-2861

Svazek periodika

126

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

25

Strana od-do

1897-1921

Kód UT WoS článku

000615755400001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85100556071