Dadkhah Mehdi, Lagzian Mohammad, Borchardt Glenn
Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
Progressive Science Institute, Box 5335, Berkeley, CA, 94705, USA.
J Cell Commun Signal. 2017 Jun;11(2):181-185. doi: 10.1007/s12079-016-0370-6. Epub 2017 Feb 18.
In recent years, the academic world has been faced with much academic misconduct. Examples involve plagiarizing papers, manipulating data, and launching predatory or hijacked journals. The literature exposing these activities is growing exponentially, and so is the presentation of criteria or guidelines for counteracting the problem. Most of the research is focused on predatory or hijacked journal detection and providing suitable warnings. Overlooked in all this is the fact that papers published in these journals are questionable, but nevertheless show up in standard citation databases. We need some way to flag them so future researchers will be aware of their questionable nature and prevent their use in literature review.
近年来，学术界面临着诸多学术不端行为。例子包括抄袭论文、操纵数据以及创办掠夺性或被劫持的期刊。揭露这些行为的文献呈指数级增长，应对该问题的标准或指南的呈现也是如此。大多数研究都集中在掠夺性或被劫持期刊的检测以及提供适当的警示上。在这一切中被忽视的一个事实是，在这些期刊上发表的论文存在问题，但却仍出现在标准的引文数据库中。我们需要某种方法来标记它们，以便未来的研究人员能够意识到它们的可疑性质，并防止在文献综述中使用它们。
