Disturbance of questionable publishing to academiaopen access
- Authors
- You, Taekh; Park, Jinseo; Lee, June Young; Yun, Jinhyuk; Jung, Woo-Sung
- Issue Date
- May-2022
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER
- Keywords
- Predatory; Greedy publishing; Controlled experiment; Citation impact; Science of science
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, v.16, no.2
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS
- Volume
- 16
- Number
- 2
- URI
- http://scholarworks.bwise.kr/ssu/handle/2018.sw.ssu/42445
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.joi.2022.101294
- ISSN
- 1751-1577
- 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.
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