title: Dangerous Predatory Publishers Threaten Medical Research.
abstract: This article introduces predatory publishers in the context of biomedical sciences research. It describes the characteristics of predatory publishers, including spamming and using fake metrics, and it describes the problems they cause for science and universities. Predatory journals often fail to properly manage peer review, allowing pseudo-science to be published dressed up as authentic science. Academic evaluation is also affected, as some researchers take advantage of the quick, easy, and cheap publishing predatory journals provide. By understanding how predatory publishers operate, researchers can avoid becoming victimized by them.
authors.affiliation: Auraria Library, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA. jeffrey.beall@ucdenver.edu.
authors.forename: Jeffrey
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9012-5330
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Beall
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000941:ethics*; D017712:Peer Review, Research; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011643:Publishing / Q000941:ethics*
keywords: Editorial Policies; Periodicals as Topic; Predatory Publishing; Publication Ethics; Science Communication