Takabe Kazuaki, Nagahashi Masayuki, Butash Ali L, Wakai Toshifumi
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center - Buffalo, New York, USA.
Niigata University - Niigata, Japan.
Japan Med Assoc J. 2019 Sep 4;2(2):200-201. doi: 10.31662/jmaj.2019-0011. Epub 2019 Jun 6.
For the last several years, predatory journals have been a topic of discussion in top scientific journals, such as . Predatory journals are problematic because they create public mistrust of scientific publication as a whole by the mass production of non-credible publications with the sole aim of profit. Recently, articles in a Japanese newspaper and online articles exposed domestic institutions for the number of publications in predatory journals, saying that they "abused predatory journals to increase the number of their publications and falsely inflate their academic achievements." We do not subscribe to this point of view because publications in predatory journals do not count as scholarly achievements, and we believe it is an information literacy problem. We feel strongly that it is both important and beneficial for the readers of to be aware of and understand this issue.
在过去几年里，掠夺性期刊一直是顶级科学期刊（如……）讨论的话题。掠夺性期刊存在问题，因为它们大量炮制不可信的出版物，唯一目的是盈利，这导致公众对整个科学出版行业产生不信任。最近，一家日本报纸的文章和网络文章曝光了国内机构在掠夺性期刊上的发文数量，称它们“滥用掠夺性期刊来增加发文数量并虚假夸大其学术成就”。我们不同意这种观点，因为在掠夺性期刊上发表文章不算学术成果，我们认为这是一个信息素养问题。我们强烈认为，让《……》的读者了解并理解这个问题既重要又有益。
