Illegitimate publishers in physiology: attracting citations and infiltration into legitimate databases

Illegitimate publishing exists in physiology, with 8,801 articles being published in 67 potentially illegitimate journals. Potentially illegitimate journals claim to be indexed by databases such as Google Scholar and Index Copernicus in an attempt to appear legitimate. Lists of legitimate and illegi...

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Published inAdvances in physiology education Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 87 - 92
Main Author Tomlinson, Owen W.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States American Physiological Society 01.03.2025
Subjects
Database Management Systems
Databases, Factual
Desktop Publishing
Fraud
Humans
Lipopolysaccharides
Periodicals
Periodicals as Topic
Physiology
Physiology - education
Publishing
Scholarly publishing
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ISSN1043-4046
1522-1229
DOI10.1152/advan.00162.2024

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