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Articles in ‘predatory’ journals receive few or no citations
"Many scientists have decried the rise of "predatory" journals—open-access publications that charge authors to publish but offer little or no peer review or other quality controls and use aggressive marketing tactics. Scholars have worried that the resulting articles have contaminated the literature with mediocre, flawed, or intentionally misleading findings. But a new study finds that 60% of articles published in a sample of "predatory journals" attracted not a single citation over a 5-year period. And the articles that received citations did so at a rate much lower than papers in conventional peer-reviewed journals."
I wish that I could read the full text. But it appears that scientists that rely on open access are not taken seriously by other scientists. Sort of like how paying for sex with a prostitute does not earn a man much respect with his fellow men.
"Many scientists have decried the rise of "predatory" journals—open-access publications that charge authors to publish but offer little or no peer review or other quality controls and use aggressive marketing tactics. Scholars have worried that the resulting articles have contaminated the literature with mediocre, flawed, or intentionally misleading findings. But a new study finds that 60% of articles published in a sample of "predatory journals" attracted not a single citation over a 5-year period. And the articles that received citations did so at a rate much lower than papers in conventional peer-reviewed journals."
I wish that I could read the full text. But it appears that scientists that rely on open access are not taken seriously by other scientists. Sort of like how paying for sex with a prostitute does not earn a man much respect with his fellow men.