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Hundreds of ‘predatory’ journals indexed on leading scholarly database


The widely used academic database Scopus hosts papers from more than 300 potentially ‘predatory’ journals that have questionable publishing practices, an analysis has found. Together, these titles contributed more than 160,000 articles over three years — almost 3% of the studies indexed on Scopus during the period. The full article was published by Nature.


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