Disturbance of questionable publishing to academia
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- Title
- Disturbance of questionable publishing to academia
- Authors
- 정우성; You, Taekho; Park, Jinseo; Lee, June Young; Yun, Jinhyuk
- Date Issued
- 2022-05
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Abstract
- Questionable publications have been accused of "greedy"practices; however, their influence on academia has not been gauged. Here, we probe the impact of questionable publications through a systematic and comprehensive analysis with various participants from academia and compare the results with those of their unaccused counterparts using billions of citation records, including liaisons, i.e., journals and publishers, and prosumers, i.e., authors. Questionable publications attribute publisher-level self-citations to their journals while limiting journal-level self-citations; yet, conventional journal-level metrics are unable to detect these publisher-level self-citations. We propose a hybrid journal-publisher metric for detecting self-favouring citations among QJs from publishers. Additionally, we demonstrate that the questionable publications were less disruptive and influential than their counterparts. Our findings indicate an inflated citation impact of suspicious academic publishers. The findings provide a basis for actionable policy-making against questionable publications. © 2022 The Authors.
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/112811
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.joi.2022.101294
- ISSN
- 1751-1577
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- Journal of Informetrics, vol. 16, no. 2, page. 101294, 2022-05
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