This article introduces predatory publishers in the context of biomedical sciences research. It describes the characteristics of predatory publishers, including spamming and using fake metrics, and it describes the problems they cause for science and universities. Predatory journals often fail to properly manage peer review, allowing pseudo-science to be published dressed up as authentic science. Academic evaluation is also affected, as some researchers take advantage of the quick, easy, and cheap publishing predatory journals provide. By understanding how predatory publishers operate, researchers can avoid becoming victimized by them.
Editorial Policies ; Periodicals as Topic

Editorial Policies ; Oral Medicine

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*Editorial Policies ; Periodicals as Topic ; Publishing

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*Editorial Policies ; Humans ; Peer Review ; *Publishing ; *Writing

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*Authorship ; Editorial Policies ; Peer Review, Research ; Publishing

BACKGROUND/AIMS: Eight years have passed since Clinical and Molecular Hepatology changed its language policy to English-only in September 2010. The journal has been included in PubMed Central since September 2010. Present title continues the Korean Journal of Hepatology since June 2012. It has been indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection as an Emerging Sources Citation Index journal since 2015. I sought to determine whether the change in language policy was successful based on journal metrics. I also investigated whether the journal has become one of the top-ranked world journals in the category of gastroenterology and hepatology. METHODS: The following journal metrics were calculated or analyzed based on the journal’s bibliographic information from 2012 to 2017 and the Web of Science Core Collection database: citable and non-citable articles, country of authors, total cites, impact factor, the immediacy index, country of citing authors, citing journal titles, and the Hirsch index. RESULTS: From 2012 to 2017, there were 282 citable articles. Authors from 29 countries have published in the journal. The number of total citations in 2017 was 611. The impact factor increased from 2.1 in 2014 to 2.8 in 2017. The citing authors were from 85 countries, and their papers have been cited in 663 journals. The Hirsch index was 19. CONCLUSIONS: Based on journal metrics, Clinical and Molecular Hepatology has succeeded in becoming a top-ranked international journal 8 years after changing its language policy to English-only.
Bibliometrics ; Editorial Policies ; Gastroenterology* ; Open Access Publishing

The digitization and related developments in journal editing and publishing necessitate increasing the awareness of all stakeholders of science communication in the emerging global problems and possible solutions. Journal editors and publishers are frequently encountered with the fast-growing problems of authorship, conflicts of interest, peer review, research misconduct, unethical citations, and inappropriate journal impact metrics. While the number of erroneous and unethical research papers and wasteful, or 'predatory', journals is increasing exponentially, responsible editors are urged to 'clean' the literature by correcting or retracting related articles. Indexers are advised to implement measures for accepting truly influential and ethical journals and delisting sources with predatory publishing practices. Updating knowledge and skills of authors, editors and publishers, developing and endorsing recommendations of global editorial associations, and (re)drafting journal instructions can be viewed as potential tools for improving ethics of academic journals. The aim of this Statement is to increase awareness of all stakeholders of science communication of the emerging ethical issues in journal editing and publishing and initiate a campaign of upgrading and enforcing related journal instructions.
Authorship ; Editorial Policies ; Ethics* ; Peer Review, Research ; Periodicals as Topic ; Publications*

A journal indexed by the Institute for Scientific Information for SCI-expanded and by the National Library of Medicine for Index Medicus/MEDLINE is important to be recognized internationally. The Korean Journal of Radiology has been indexed in the database of the SCI-expanded since 2001 and Medicus/MEDLINE since 2000. The criteria for journal evaluation and selection by the National Library of Medicine include quality of editorial work, production quality, and quality of content. Most of the candidate journals contain reasonably good quality in editorial work and production. Thus, we believe that the quality of content is the most important criteria for the journal selection. To maintain a good quality of content, selection of the manuscript containing originality and scientific merits is imperative in review process. Highly selected, small number of articles per issue would be a wise editorial policy for a journal to be indexed by the well-known database.
Abstracting and Indexing as Topic* ; Editorial Policies ; National Library of Medicine (U.S.)*

Even among highly educated health professionals, there is inconsistency in the knowledge and perception concerning both conflict of interest (COI) itself and COI disclosure. The key issue is the credibility of the manuscript, which relies heavily on transparency of COI for the reader. The tendency to disregard the importance of COI disclosure among journal editors has been recently highlighted. For all types of COI, the primary question is how it is managed. To ensure the enforcement of the declared journal COI policies, it is crucial that not only authors, but also those who are involved in the assessment of manuscripts, be educated and informed of the updated guidelines concerning COI disclosure.
*Conflict of Interest ; Disclosure ; Editorial Policies ; Guidelines as Topic ; Humans ; Research

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*Editorial Policies ; Humans ; *Periodicals as Topic ; *Radiology ; Republic of Korea