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Predatory Publishing : Common Characteristics

This guide is intended to raise the awareness of EdUHK authors on predatory journals and how to avoid falling into their traps.

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1. Beall, J. (2012). Predatory publishers are corrupting open access. Nature, 489(7415), 179. https://doi.org/10.1038/489179a

2. Bohannon, J. (2013). Who’s afraid of peer review? Science, 342(6154), 60–65. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.2013.342.6154.342_60

3. Committee on Publication Ethics (2019). Predatory publishing. https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.3.6

4. Eriksson, S., & Helgesson, G. (2017). The false academy: Predatory publishing in science and bioethics. Medicine, health care, and philosophy, 20(2), 163–170. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-016-9740-3

5. Sorokowski, P., Kulczycki, E., Sorokowska, A., & Pisanski, K. (2017). Predatory journals recruit fake editor. Nature, 543(7646), 481–483. https://doi.org/10.1038/543481a

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