Stop Predatory Publishers Now

Letters6 December 2016Stop Predatory Publishers NowDavid Moher, PhD and Ester Moher, PhDDavid Moher, PhDFrom Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and Privacy Analytics, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.Search for more papers by this author and Ester Moher, PhDFrom Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and Privacy Analytics, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/L16-0415 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail IN RESPONSE:We thank Dr. Winker for pointing out all of the collaborative work that the World Association of Medical Editors is doing with other players in the area of predatory journals, particularly around issues related to identifying such journals. Winker and this organization also make an important point about the gray zone that new and emerging legitimate journals can fall into and thus erroneously become blacklisted. We make this very point in our essay.Whatever the appropriate definition attributed to predatory journals—which, like many other definitions, will be imperfect (1, 2)—we believe that our central point remains. A large ...References1. Moher D, Cole CW, Hill GB. Epidemiology of abdominal aortic aneurysm: the effect of differing definitions. Eur J Vasc Surg. 1992;6:647-50. [PMID: 1451823] CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. Goodman SN, Fanelli D, Ioannidis JP. What does research reproducibility mean? Sci Transl Med. 2016;8:341ps12. [PMID: 27252173] doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf5027 CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: From Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and Privacy Analytics, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.Disclosures: Authors have disclosed no conflicts of interest. Forms can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M15-3015. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsSee AlsoStop Predatory Publishers Now: Act Collaboratively David Moher and Ester Moher Stop Predatory Publishers Now Margaret A. Winker and Metrics Cited byInvitations received from potential predatory publishers and fraudulent conferences: a 12-month early-career researcher experienceOpen Access: Is There a Predator at the Door?Open Access: Is There a Predator at the Door? 6 December 2016Volume 165, Issue 11Page: 826-827KeywordsConflicts of interestDisclosureFallsMedical educationPeer reviewPerceptionRandomized trials ePublished: 6 December 2016 Issue Published: 6 December 2016 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 2016 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF downloadLoading ...