APC Journals
This article discusses the growing problem of predatory journals, which misrepresent themselves as legitimate scholarly publications to exploit authors financially while bypassing academic publishing standards such as peer review and transparency. To combat this issue, journals play an essential role: they should educate authors about predatory publishing, provide guidance on identifying legitimate publishers, alert their community if imitated, scrutinize questionable citations, and take legal or preventive actions to deter fraudulent entities.
Epub 2025 Jan 7. PMID: 39761575. doi: 10.7326/ANNALS-24-03636
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