Jeffrey Beall’s “predatory” lists must not be used: they are biased, flawed, opaque and inaccurate
A commentary published in «Nature» by Jeffrey Beall called for the ban of “predatory” journals from the scientific record. That call for a ban was deeply flawed since the lists on which the term “predatory” were based, were themselves flawed. Many papers published in such journals are valid, having...
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University of Bologna
2017-06-01
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| Series: | Bibliothecae.it |
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| Online Access: | https://bibliothecae.unibo.it/article/view/7044 |