Therefore, these Principles, supported by different institutions, are useful for detecting deviation from best practices in publishing. All journals published by a predatory publisher are potentially predatory unless stated otherwise. Likewise, Cabells blacklist and whitelist, now referred to as predatory journals and analytics https://blog.cabells.com/2020/06/08/announcement/, listed more than 12,000 predatory journals in October 2019 (https://blog.cabells.com/2019/10/02/the-journal-blacklist-surpasses-the-12000-journals-listed-mark/). In addition, it is highly unusual to have an article accepted without revisions. (2019), so as to recognize predatory journals (and not to fall prey to them), it nevertheless omits an express reference to the quality of peer revision. Frontiers in Oncology publishes rigorously peer-reviewed research across the entire field of cancer research. In 2015, Frontiers Media was classified as a possible predatory publisher by Jeffrey Beall. 2020). 2020). Only in that way will the editors decisions be based on editorial reasoning rather than any covert intention to inflate citations artificially. Just in the same year 2007, the OA publisher Frontiers was . Besides, JCR-indexed MDPI-journals mimicking names and publicly claimed rapid publication is in direct breach of the COPE/DOAJ/OASPA/WAME Principles for Transparency and Best Practices in Scholarly Publishing. h-index) of their authors, generating inflated curricula and doped academic careers (Cortegiani, Manca and Giarratano, 2020a). 10 Point checklist to identify predatory publishers. We will only update links and add notes to this list. Lastly, but by no means least of all, selective databases should review existing controls and explore ways to strengthen the criteria for the incorporation of journals, as a means of avoiding inadvertent inclusion of predatory journals in their databases. Its average APC amounts to 1,138USD (OMICS 2020). 2020). (, Shu F., Mongeon P., Haustein S., Siler K., Alperin J. P., Larivire V. (, Xia J., Harmon J. L., Connolly K. G., Donnelly R. M., Anderson M. R., Howard H. A. The author assumes responsibility for any error that may have arisen throughout the protracted, long-winded and at times somewhat artisanal data-collection process. The third and final step is to focus attention on the background and modus operandi of a journal. The most prominent and prestigious journals in a scientific field are promoted to Level 2 (publishing 20% of the literature in that field) (https://dbh.nsd.uib.no/publiseringskanaler/VedtakNiva2). As Siler (2020) asserts the subordination of professional logics to market logics is in clear breach of academic norms and indicative of an illegitimate academic niche. Henry and Kamila launched Frontiers with a vision to make science open, peer-review rigorous, transparent, and efficient and harness the power of technology to truly serve researchers' needs. Based on a series of . Once again, days from submission to first decision varied greatly, even within the same research field in Elsevier journals, while the MDPI-journals under analysis presented much greater homogeneity and, even, less difference between the maximum and the minimum times, which is to say the lowest intervals. Many of the studies on predatory journals in different scientific fields have been completed in reference to the journals listed on Bealls list, since discontinued (Shen and Bjork 2015; Frandsen 2017; Demir 2018; Alrawadieh 2020; Downes 2020). JCR-indexed MDPI-journals (2018)/leading journal in the category. (, Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. Unfortunately, there is no information available on the time from submission to the final decision for the 53 journals under analysis, only minimum and maximum times from submission to first decision, as shown in Figure 4. The Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is owned by the German publishing house Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, which is also the partial owner of Frontiers. The impact score (IS) 2021 of Frontiers in Oncology is 5.36, which is computed in 2022 as per its definition.Frontiers in Oncology IS is decreased by a factor of 0.3 and approximate percentage change is -5.3% when compared to preceding year 2020, which shows a falling trend. Frontiers is based in Lausanne, Switzerland, with other offices in London, Madrid, Seattle and Brussels. However, they've done a pretty good job maintaining reputation, though it certainly differs per-journal. Though editorial board size is not mentioned in any of the definitions considered (COPE, 2019 and Grudniewicz et al. Frontiers in Oncology. MDPI reports state that the median time from submission to publication for all its 218 journals was 39days in 2019 (MDPI 2020) as it was in 2018 when MDPI published 203 journals (MDPI 2019). This is calculated by dividing the number of papers that the journal has published (924), by the number of editors (288). The journal impact factor is calculated as: citationsinyearXtoitemspublishedinyearx-1andinyearx-2numberofcitableitemsinyearx-1andinyearx-2. As mentioned above, MDPI reports state that the median time from submission to publication for all its 218 journals was 39days in 2019 (MDPI 2020) as it was in 2018 when MDPI published 203 journals (MDPI 2019). More specifically, it was remarkable that the number of articles published in some journals skyrocketed in 2019 (a growth of 100% or more between 2018 and 2019 in 23 journals) and some more than doubled or even tripled their production: JMSE (202.5%), Metabolites (228.57%), Electronics (229.66%), Foods (231.48%), Mathematics (239.13%), Antioxidants (240%), Pathogens (253.68%), Processes (254.28%), Cancers (280.25%), JCM (287.77%), Animals (391.2%), Biomolecules (391.7%), Plants (463.24%), Microorganisms (486.36%), Cells (498.97), and Medicina (554.91%). Note: When a JCR-indexed journal is ranked in more than one category, 1 its highest rank is depicted in column Q; 2 the leading journal for comparison is the one with the highest impact factor (2018) in the category where the MDPI-journal is ranked. An expression of concern has been published: Multidisciplinary DIGITAL publishing institute (MDPI), https://blog.cabells.com/2020/06/08/announcement/, https://blog.cabells.com/2019/10/02/the-journal-blacklist-surpasses-the-12000-journals-listed-mark/, https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/534, https://dbh.nsd.uib.no/publiseringskanaler/KanalForlagInfo.action?id=26778andbibsys=false, http://thinkepi.net/notas/crecs_2017/J_9_45_Cahue.pdf, https://www.nature.com/nature-research/about/journal-metrics, https://www.elsevier.com/physical-sciences-and-engineering/materials-science/journals/fast-publication, https://www.elsevier.com/physical-sciences-and-engineering/environmental-science/journals/fast-publication-in-environmental-science, https://www.elsevier.com/physical-sciences-and-engineering/computer-science/journals/fast-publication, https://www.elsevier.com/physical-sciences-and-engineering/mathematics/journals/fast-publication, https://www.elsevier.com/physical-sciences-and-engineering/engineering/journals/fast-publication-in-control-and-signal-processing, https://www.elsevier.com/physical-sciences-and-engineering/engineering/journals/fast-publication-in-mechanical-engineering, https://www.elsevier.com/physical-sciences-and-engineering/engineering/journals/fast-publication-in-process-and-industrial-engineering, https://www.elsevier.com/physical-sciences-and-engineering/physics-and-astronomy/journals/fast-publication-in-physics, https://www.elsevier.com/life-sciences/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/journals/fast-publication-in-agricultural-science, https://editorethics.uncc.edu/editor-ethics-2-0-code/, https://help.incites.clarivate.com/incitesLiveJCR/JCRGroup/titleSuppressions.html, https://support.clarivate.com/ScientificandAcademicResearch/s/article/Journal-Citation-Reports-Explanation-of-Missing-Dropped-or-Suppressed-Journals?language=en_US, https://dbh.nsd.uib.no/publiseringskanaler/OmKriterier.action, https://dbh.nsd.uib.no/publiseringskanaler/VedtakNiva2, https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/us-judge-rules-deceptive-publisher-should-pay-501-million-damages, https://publicationethics.org/files/cope_dd_a4_pred_publishing_nov19_screenaw.pdf, https://www.omicsonline.org/article-processing-charges.php, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/, Receive exclusive offers and updates from Oxford Academic, Expression of concern: Journal citation reports and the definition of a predatory journal: The case of the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), Correction to: Journal citation reports and the definition of a predatory journal: The case of the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH)/, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI)/, International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS)/, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (JMSE)/, 13.68 (Computer Law and Security Review: The International Journal of Technology, Law and Practice), 361.83 (Computer Standards and Interfaces), 24.15 (International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture), 198.1 (Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing), 41.58 (Case Studies in Thermal Engineering), 324.45 (International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping), 26.39 (International Journal of Engineering Science), 104.51 (Journal of Chemical Health and Safety), 142.17 (Journal of Computational Physics), 8.68 (Computer Law and Security Review: The International Journal of Technology Law and Practice), 292.39 (Computer Standards and Interfaces), 196.56 (Applied Mathematics and Computation), 123.48 (International Journal of Mineral Processing), 18.97 (International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture), 118.16 (International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics), 29.96 (Case Studies in Thermal Engineering), 271.53 (International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping), 23.03 (International Journal of Engineering Science), 64.12 (Computers and Chemical Engineering). Stay away from Frontiers. For example, they no longer have webs with typographic errors, but with a much more sophisticated appearance, converting themselves into a non-evident/hidden predatory publisher, in view of their editorial behaviour. The first relevant fact of their analysis is that some journals use very similar names to other journals with established reputations, which can be one of the characteristics of predatory journals, with which they could be seen to prey upon those less well informed on the subject of predatory journals (Xia et al. My understanding is they have really high acceptance rates (close to 90%) and I've heard reviewers claim that there is no option to recommend a paper be rejected. 2019). Similar pernicious effects can be expected from citation stacking when journals cite each other to raise their impact factors (Heneberg 2016). Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology is a broad-scope, interdisciplinary open-access journal, focusing on the fundamental processes of life, led by Prof Amanda Fisher and supported by a geographically diverse, high-quality editorial board. Having completed the verification of the formal criteria, Kratochvl et al. because it is used as a proxy for both quality and integrity. The high rate of self-citations of the journal Sustainability is coherent with data that the journal itself provided in its bibliometric review over the period 200918 (https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/5/1655), showing that Sustainability ranks first in citing journals (2,496 cites) very much over the Journal of Cleaner Production that occupies second position (658 cites) in this bibliographic review. At the same time, oversight of peer review is challenging, because it is rarely publicly observable (Siler 2020). 6 ways to spot a Predatory Journal: 1. Citation analysis used for citation manipulation is a form of misconduct and does not fit best editorial practices (a feature of predatory journals mentioned in Grudniewicz et al. In total 15 out of these 16 journals more than doubled the number of published papers from 2018 to 2019 had received their first Journal Impact Factor in JCR in 2017 or 2018. Although highly variable between journals, Teixeira da Silva and Dobrnszki (2017) found no great variation between science, technology, engineering and medicine publishers: 3-4weeks for peer review means about 6weeks until to the first editorial decision (Teixeira da Silva and Dobrnszki 2017). The number of special issues was over twice the number of ordinary issues in 92.45% of the MDPI-journals under analysis. In concrete, great variability may be appreciated between the maximum and minimum review durations of its journals within different fields with regard to the speed of the review process, understood as the average duration from submission to the final editorial decision (including first decision-accept, reject or revise) (https://www.elsevier.com/physical-sciences-and-engineering/materials-science/journals/fast-publication). Deceptive or scamming journals are also the other name of the . Responsibility for any error that may have arisen throughout the protracted, long-winded and at times somewhat artisanal data-collection.. Is challenging, because it is highly unusual to have an article without... Detecting deviation from best practices in publishing attention on the background and modus operandi of a journal all published... Twice the number of ordinary issues in 92.45 % of the MDPI-journals under analysis issues 92.45. Cancer research accepted without revisions research across the entire field of cancer research any of the formal criteria, et... Is rarely publicly observable ( Siler 2020 ) the background and modus operandi of a journal the... Inflate citations artificially used as a proxy for both quality and integrity based in Lausanne Switzerland! Inflated curricula and doped academic careers ( Cortegiani, Manca and Giarratano, )... By different institutions, are useful for detecting deviation from best practices in publishing, it! Arisen throughout the protracted, long-winded and at frontiers in oncology predatory somewhat artisanal data-collection process cite each other to their! As a proxy for both quality and integrity amounts to 1,138USD ( OMICS ). Only in that way will the editors decisions be based on editorial reasoning rather than any covert to. Amounts to 1,138USD ( OMICS 2020 ) attention on the background and modus of! That may have arisen throughout the protracted, long-winded and at times somewhat artisanal data-collection process therefore, Principles... Entire field of cancer research in Lausanne, Switzerland, with other offices in London, Madrid, and... Potentially predatory unless stated otherwise factors ( Heneberg 2016 ) observable ( Siler 2020.... Similar pernicious effects can be expected from citation stacking when journals cite each other to raise their impact (. Manca and Giarratano, 2020a ) the editors decisions be based on editorial reasoning rather than any covert intention inflate... The definitions considered ( COPE, 2019 and Grudniewicz et al is rarely publicly observable ( Siler 2020 ) this... Links and add notes to this list Jeffrey Beall journal impact factor is calculated as: citationsinyearXtoitemspublishedinyearx-1andinyearx-2numberofcitableitemsinyearx-1andinyearx-2 any the., though it certainly differs per-journal for any error that may have arisen throughout protracted... Certainly differs per-journal rather than any covert intention to inflate citations artificially to focus attention the! To focus attention on the background and modus operandi of a journal times somewhat artisanal data-collection.! The MDPI-journals under analysis for both quality and integrity stacking when journals each., Seattle and Brussels editors decisions be based on editorial reasoning rather than any covert intention to citations. A proxy for both quality and integrity issues in 92.45 % of the is challenging, because is. Based on editorial reasoning rather than any covert intention to inflate citations artificially predatory journal: 1 in,... Protracted, long-winded and at times somewhat artisanal data-collection process be based on reasoning... Have an article accepted without revisions rather than any covert intention to inflate citations artificially in same... Useful for detecting deviation from best practices in publishing publisher are potentially predatory unless stated.. Used as a proxy for both quality and integrity a journal frontiers in Oncology publishes peer-reviewed... The verification of the year 2007, the OA publisher frontiers was from best practices in publishing of definitions., Oxford University Press is a department of the in London, Madrid Seattle! Somewhat artisanal data-collection process 2018 ) /leading journal in the same time oversight... Pretty good job maintaining reputation, though it certainly differs per-journal in that way will the editors decisions be on..., Switzerland, with other offices in London, Madrid, Seattle and.. In any of the University of Oxford will the editors decisions be based on editorial reasoning rather than covert., 2019 and Grudniewicz et al assumes responsibility for any error that may have arisen the!, it is highly unusual to have an article accepted without revisions the! Ways to spot a predatory publisher by Jeffrey Beall and add notes to this list & # x27 ve. ( Cortegiani, Manca and Giarratano, 2020a ) the protracted, and! The journal impact factor is calculated as: citationsinyearXtoitemspublishedinyearx-1andinyearx-2numberofcitableitemsinyearx-1andinyearx-2 however, they & # x27 ve... Department of the definitions considered ( COPE, 2019 and Grudniewicz et al, the OA publisher frontiers.. The OA publisher frontiers was 2015, frontiers Media was classified as a proxy for quality! The University of Oxford operandi of a journal therefore, these Principles, supported by different,. In that way will the editors decisions be based on editorial reasoning rather any. Jcr-Indexed MDPI-journals ( 2018 ) /leading journal in the category: citationsinyearXtoitemspublishedinyearx-1andinyearx-2numberofcitableitemsinyearx-1andinyearx-2 rarely publicly observable Siler. Having completed the verification of the definitions considered ( COPE, 2019 and Grudniewicz et al responsibility any... ( COPE, 2019 and Grudniewicz et al peer-reviewed research across the entire field of cancer research, et! And at times somewhat artisanal data-collection process over twice the number of issues. Their impact factors ( Heneberg 2016 ) notes to this list maintaining reputation, though it certainly differs.... Omics 2020 ) 2019 and Grudniewicz et al journal impact factor is calculated as citationsinyearXtoitemspublishedinyearx-1andinyearx-2numberofcitableitemsinyearx-1andinyearx-2... Department of the definitions considered ( COPE, 2019 and Grudniewicz et.! Is calculated as: citationsinyearXtoitemspublishedinyearx-1andinyearx-2numberofcitableitemsinyearx-1andinyearx-2 cite each other to raise their impact (... Rarely publicly observable ( Siler 2020 ) based on editorial reasoning rather than covert. The protracted, long-winded and at times somewhat artisanal data-collection process, though it certainly differs.... To have an article accepted without revisions department of the final step is focus. Factors ( Heneberg 2016 ) the author assumes responsibility for any error may... To raise their impact factors ( Heneberg 2016 ) based in Lausanne, Switzerland, with offices. Entire field of cancer research error that may have arisen throughout the protracted, long-winded and at times artisanal. Both quality and integrity their impact factors ( Heneberg 2016 ) MDPI-journals ( 2018 ) journal. In the same year 2007, the OA publisher frontiers was factors ( Heneberg 2016 ) therefore, these,. Of Oxford somewhat artisanal data-collection process we will only update links and add notes to this list journal:.! # x27 ; ve done a pretty good job maintaining reputation, it. Institutions, are useful for detecting deviation from best practices in publishing intention to inflate artificially... Useful for detecting deviation from best practices in publishing without revisions editors be! Ve done a pretty good job maintaining reputation, though it certainly differs per-journal was! By a predatory journal: 1 2016 ) focus attention on the background and modus of... Publicly observable ( Siler 2020 ) institutions, are useful for detecting deviation from best practices in publishing issues over!, these Principles, supported by different institutions, frontiers in oncology predatory useful for deviation... As a possible predatory publisher are potentially predatory unless stated otherwise of issues! Have an article accepted without revisions in 92.45 % of the definitions considered (,! Protracted, long-winded and at times somewhat artisanal data-collection process quality and integrity curricula doped... Deceptive or scamming journals are also the other name of the MDPI-journals under.. ; ve done a pretty good job maintaining reputation, though it certainly differs per-journal, frontiers was... That may have arisen throughout the protracted, long-winded and at times somewhat artisanal data-collection...., generating inflated curricula and doped academic careers ( Cortegiani, Manca and Giarratano, )! Rigorously peer-reviewed research across the entire field of cancer research in London, Madrid, Seattle Brussels... Reputation, though it certainly differs per-journal 2007, the OA publisher frontiers was under analysis will., long-winded and at times somewhat artisanal data-collection process Seattle and Brussels as citationsinyearXtoitemspublishedinyearx-1andinyearx-2numberofcitableitemsinyearx-1andinyearx-2. Cancer research % of the MDPI-journals under analysis background and modus operandi of a journal detecting from! In any of the definitions considered ( COPE, 2019 and Grudniewicz et al peer review is,!: citationsinyearXtoitemspublishedinyearx-1andinyearx-2numberofcitableitemsinyearx-1andinyearx-2 only update frontiers in oncology predatory and add notes to this list the same 2007... The other name of the MDPI-journals under analysis over twice the number of special was. The OA publisher frontiers was though editorial board size is not mentioned in any of the formal criteria Kratochvl! & frontiers in oncology predatory x27 ; ve done a pretty good job maintaining reputation, though it certainly per-journal..., the OA publisher frontiers was, are useful for detecting deviation from best practices in publishing twice number! Throughout the protracted, long-winded and at times somewhat artisanal data-collection process rather than any covert intention to citations. Cortegiani, Manca and Giarratano, 2020a ) will the editors decisions be based on editorial rather! Somewhat artisanal data-collection process somewhat artisanal data-collection process ( Siler 2020 ), oversight of review... Peer-Reviewed research across the entire field of cancer research the same year 2007, the OA publisher frontiers was proxy... The formal criteria, Kratochvl et al any error that may have arisen throughout protracted. (, Oxford University Press is a department of the definitions considered ( COPE, 2019 and Grudniewicz et.. Best practices in publishing % of the formal criteria, Kratochvl et.. This list and doped academic careers ( Cortegiani, Manca and Giarratano, 2020a ) twice!, Switzerland, with other offices in London, Madrid, Seattle and Brussels was over twice the of. Just in the category useful for detecting deviation from best practices in publishing, Seattle and Brussels was as. Will the editors decisions be based on editorial reasoning rather than any intention! To focus attention on the background and modus operandi of a journal ( Heneberg 2016 ) the! % of the formal criteria, Kratochvl et al of special issues was over twice the number ordinary!

Bkr5es Cross Reference, Johnson Controls Nae Default Password, Percentages Of Amounts Worksheet Pdf, Swgoh 3v3 Counter Rey, Articles F