Dal-Ré R, Marušić A
Health Research Institute-Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Avda Reyes Católicos 2, E-28040 Madrid, Spain.
Neth J Med. 2019 Feb;77(2):92-96.
The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) has expressed its concerns about predatory journals using the list of ICMJE Recommendations (ICMJE-R) followers to "gain the appearance of legitimacy." We assessed the presence of potential predatory journals on the ICMJE-R list and their adherence to ICMJE recommendations.
A random sample of 350 journals from the estimated 3,100-3,200 biomedical journals listed as ICMJE-R followers was chosen. Data collected from the ICMJE and journal webpages in English were: adherence to six ICMJE-R policies/requirements, year of journal's listing as ICMJE-R follower, discipline covered, publisher and its country of origin and existence of article processing charge. Potential predatory journal was considered as one open access journal not being a member of a recognized listing in COPE, DOAJ, OASPA, AJOL and/or INASP.
Thirty-one percent of journals were considered to be potentially predatory; 94% of them were included in the ICMJE-R list in 2014-2018. Half were published in the United States and 62% were devoted to medicine. Adherence to five of the six policies/requirements was infrequent, ranging from 51% (plagiarism) to 7% (trial registration). Seventy-two percent of journals mentioned a policy on authors' conflicts of interest. Information on article processing charge was available for 76% journals and could not be found for 22%. Authorship policy/ instructions were significantly more present in journals with publishers from India than from the USA (53% vs 30%; p = 0.047), with no differences in the other five policies.
Predatory journals should be deleted from the ICMJE-R list of followers to prevent misleading authors. ICMJE-R following journals need to be reevaluated with pre-defined published criteria.
国际医学期刊编辑委员会（ICMJE）对掠夺性期刊利用ICMJE建议（ICMJE-R）遵循者名单来“获取合法性表象”表示担忧。我们评估了ICMJE-R名单上潜在掠夺性期刊的存在情况及其对ICMJE建议的遵循情况。
从列为ICMJE-R遵循者的估计3100 - 3200种生物医学期刊中随机抽取350种期刊作为样本。从ICMJE和期刊英文网页收集的数据包括：对ICMJE-R六项政策/要求的遵循情况、期刊列为ICMJE-R遵循者的年份、涵盖的学科、出版商及其原产国以及文章处理费的存在情况。潜在掠夺性期刊被视为一种开放获取期刊，但不是COPE、DOAJ、OASPA、AJOL和/或INASP认可名单中的成员。
31%的期刊被认为可能是掠夺性的；其中94%在2014 - 2018年被列入ICMJE-R名单。一半在美国出版且62%专注于医学领域。对六项政策/要求中的五项的遵循情况不常见，从51%（抄袭）到7%（试验注册）不等。72%的期刊提到了关于作者利益冲突的政策。76%的期刊提供了文章处理费信息，22%未找到相关信息。印度出版商的期刊比美国出版商的期刊在作者政策/说明方面显著更常见（53%对30%；p = 0.047），其他五项政策方面无差异。
应从ICMJE-R遵循者名单中删除掠夺性期刊，以防止误导作者。需要根据预先定义的公开标准对遵循ICMJE-R的期刊进行重新评估。
