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dc.contributor.author | Cuschieri, Sarah | - |
dc.contributor.author | Grech, Victor E. | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-10-16T11:24:28Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-10-16T11:24:28Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Cuschieri, S., & Grech, V. (2018). WASP (write a scientific paper): Open Access unsolicited emails for scholarly work – young and senior researchers perspectives. Early Human Development, 122, 64-66. doi:10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2018.04.006 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/47447 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The increasing demand on academics and researchers to publish has led to the development of fake journals (also known as predatory journals). Such journals lack peer review and precipitate unfair criticism toward legitimate open access journals. Predatory journals tend to bombard a researcher's mailbox on a daily basis, inviting authors to submit a review/manuscript/opinion/short case to their journal while promising expedited publication – against a fee. This study assessed the unsolicited emails received over the period of November 2017 by a young and by a senior researcher. The young researcher received a substantially higher amount of emails (n = 101) compared to the senior researcher (n = 23). The article processing costs for solicited journals received, ranged between $49 and $3019. These journals are almost all only indexed in Google Scholar and do not display any meaningful journal metrics. Furthermore, the majority of the unsolicited emails were not relevant to the researcher's field of study. Therefore authors and readers alike should evaluate emails received with regard to journal legitimacy prior to submission of work to possibly predatory journals. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Elsevier Ireland Ltd | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Publications | en_GB |
dc.subject | Open access publishing | en_GB |
dc.subject | Freedom of information | en_GB |
dc.subject | Electronic information resource searching | en_GB |
dc.subject | Information technology | en_GB |
dc.subject | Peer review | en_GB |
dc.subject | Research | en_GB |
dc.title | WASP (write a scientific paper) : Open Access unsolicited emails for scholarly work – young and senior researchers perspectives | en_GB |
dc.type | article | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | peer-reviewed | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2018.04.006 | - |
dc.publication.title | Early Human Development | en_GB |
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