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3 https://blog.cabells.com/tag/predatory-journals/.
4 Journal Citation Report (JCR) published by Clarivate Analytics, lists the authentic Impact Factors of
journals. Impact factor is based on two elements : the numerator, which is the number of citations in
the current year to any items published in a journal in the previous two years, and the denominator,
which is the number of substantive articles (source items) published in the same two years (https://
www.cmaj.ca/content/161/8/979). Impact factor is one the measures which is being used for all
academic assessment of individual faculty members.
5 Standard Indexing databases list high quality, legitimate journals in a particular discipline. Such
databases have stringent criteria for inclusion of journals and are updated at regular intervals.
Web of Science, SCOPUS, PubMed, PsycInfo, Biological Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts, ERIC,
AGRICOLA, etc.
6 https://healthydebate.ca/2020/07/topic/dangers-of-predatory-publishing.
7 https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/10/28/citation-contamination-references-to-predatory-
journals-in-the-legitimate-scientific-literature/.
8 https://predatory-publishing.com/will-publishing-in-predatory-journals-harm-your-cv/.
9 http://kscien.org/.
10 http://kscien.org/predatory.php.
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11 http://www.ohri.ca/journalology/. https://www2.cabells.com.
13 https:/ugc.ac.in/.
14 http://ugccare.unipune.ac.in.
15 https://thinkchecksubmit.org.
16 https://journalfinder.elsevier.com/.
17 https://journalsuggester.springer.com/.
18 https://journalfinder.wiley.com/.
19 http://publicationethics.org.
20 https://sfdora.org/.
21 https://www.leidenmanifesto.org/.
22 https://responsiblemetrics.org/the-metric-tide/.
23 https://osf.io/m9abx/.
24 http://wame.org/.
25 Paper mills: set‐ups that essentially make money by “writing” bogus papers for bogus researchers
– in the thousands, are coming up, producing amazingly convincing pseudoscientific texts (they even
pass the Turing test). They cannot be detected using criteria for plagiarism, because – seemingly –
they contain none (Moore, 2020, Sing. 2020).
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