How Frequently Are Articles in Predatory Open Access Journals Cited
How Frequently Are Articles in Predatory Open Access Journals Cited
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DOI：
10.3390/publications8020017
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发表时间：
2020-06-01
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影响因子：
5.2
通讯作者：
Harviainen, J. Tuomas
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作者：
Bjork, Bo-Christer;Kanto-Karvonen, Sari;Harviainen, J. Tuomas
掠夺性期刊是指科学质量有很大问题的开放获取期刊。这些期刊假装使用同行评议来保证质量，并向学者发送垃圾邮件，要求他们提交论文，以收取作者的报酬。近年来，掠夺性期刊收到了大量负面的媒体报道。虽然关于这类期刊对学术出版造成的危害已经说了很多，但一个被忽视的方面是，这类期刊上的文章实际上有多少被阅读，特别是被引用，也就是说，它们是否对各自领域的研究产生了重大影响。其他研究已经表明，在掠夺性期刊上，只有部分文章包含了错误的和直接有害的结果，而许多文章都是平庸的和报道不足的研究。我们在b谷歌Scholar中随机选取了2014年在此类期刊上发表的250篇文章，进行了5年的引文统计，发现平均每篇文章被引用2.6次，其中56%的文章完全没有被引用。为了进行比较，在Scopus索引中包含的大约25,000种同行评议期刊上发表的文章随机抽样，同期平均引用次数为18.1次，只有9%的文章没有被引用。我们得出的结论是，发表在掠夺性期刊上的文章几乎没有科学影响。
Predatory journals are Open Access journals of highly questionable scientific quality. Such journals pretend to use peer review for quality assurance, and spam academics with requests for submissions, in order to collect author payments. In recent years predatory journals have received a lot of negative media. While much has been said about the harm that such journals cause to academic publishing in general, an overlooked aspect is how much articles in such journals are actually read and in particular cited, that is if they have any significant impact on the research in their fields. Other studies have already demonstrated that only some of the articles in predatory journals contain faulty and directly harmful results, while a lot of the articles present mediocre and poorly reported studies. We studied citation statistics over a five-year period in Google Scholar for 250 random articles published in such journals in 2014 and found an average of 2.6 citations per article, and that 56% of the articles had no citations at all. For comparison, a random sample of articles published in the approximately 25,000 peer reviewed journals included in the Scopus index had an average of 18, 1 citations in the same period with only 9% receiving no citations. We conclude that articles published in predatory journals have little scientific impact.