Université de Lille Nord de France, 59000 Lille, France; Service d'orthopédie, CHU de Lille, Hôpital Roger-Salengro, 59000 Lille, France.
Université de Lille Nord de France, 59000 Lille, France; Service d'orthopédie, CHU de Lille, Hôpital Roger-Salengro, 59000 Lille, France.
Orthop Traumatol Surg Res. 2020 Dec;106(8):1457-1461. doi: 10.1016/j.otsr.2020.03.042. Epub 2020 Oct 31.
France ranks 9th worldwide for scientific publication in orthopedics and the increase in both the quantity and the quality of its scientific production has been described in detail. On the other hand, publishing by French orthopedic surgeons in predatory journals is more obscure. The journals in question are difficult to identify but are based on an open-access model with article processing charges (APC), except in rare cases that are difficult to specify, as they are not stated at the time of submission. The increase in the number of predatory journals over the last 10 years led us to attempt to assess the rate at which French orthopedic surgeons publish in them, as revealed by investigation of the SIGAPS bibliometric database.
Over the period 2008-2017, the rate of publications by French orthopedic surgeons in predatory journals was less than 5%.
The SIGAPS database contains the detail of publications by French orthopedic surgeons members of the French Society of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology (SoFCOT) and was used to analyse all such articles (journal article, review or editorial) so as to isolate articles with PubMed-Not-MEDLINE status falling in the SIGAPS non-classified (NC) category and to determine the predatory status of the journal using established lists, such as Beall's list or that drawn up by StopPredatoryJournals. In case of difficulty in determining predatory status, we applied the criteria defined by Beall and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Out of 6056 articles in the SIGAPS database published by French orthopedic surgeons between 2008 and 2017, 323 could be suspected of being published in a predatory journal, but only 33 were so confirmed: i.e., 0.55% of French orthopedic scientific output over the study period. Eleven appeared in journals whose publishers were listed as predatory by Beall, 21 appeared in journals whose publishers had been listed as predatory on Beall's list in 2012 with the dubious editorial practices defined by Beall, and one article appeared in a journal found to be predatory on analysis of its editorial board. More than half of these articles (58%) were subject to APCs averaging $400.
Despite a strong increase in the number of predatory journals over the last decade, very few French orthopedic surgeons resort to them to publish their work. Difficulty of identification and authors' lack of knowledge about this type of journals may account for some of these submissions. Scientific teams need to check certain criteria before submitting to a journal: short time to publication and low APC should be taken as warning signs, and any demand for payment after acceptance certainly raises the question of the journal's predatory nature.
IV; retrospective study without control group.
法国在骨科领域的科学出版物数量位居世界第九，其科学产出的数量和质量都有详细的描述。另一方面，法国骨科医生在掠夺性期刊上的发表情况则较为模糊。这些期刊难以识别，但都是基于开放获取模式，收取文章处理费（APC），除了极少数难以具体说明的情况外，因为在提交时并未说明。过去 10 年，掠夺性期刊的数量不断增加，这促使我们试图通过调查 SIGAPS 文献计量数据库来评估法国骨科医生在这些期刊上发表论文的比例。
在 2008 年至 2017 年期间，法国骨科医生在掠夺性期刊上发表的论文比例低于 5%。
SIGAPS 数据库包含了法国骨科外科学会（SoFCOT）成员的法国骨科医生的出版物详细信息，我们使用该数据库分析了所有此类文章（期刊文章、综述或社论），以分离出具有 PubMed-Not-MEDLINE 状态且属于 SIGAPS 未分类（NC）类别的文章，并使用已建立的清单（如 Beall 清单或 StopPredatoryJournals 清单）确定期刊的掠夺性状态。在难以确定掠夺性状态的情况下，我们应用了 Beall 和出版伦理委员会（COPE）定义的标准。
在 2008 年至 2017 年期间，SIGAPS 数据库中发表的 6056 篇法国骨科医生的文章中，有 323 篇可能被怀疑发表在掠夺性期刊上，但只有 33 篇得到证实：即研究期间法国骨科科学产出的 0.55%。其中 11 篇发表在被 Beall 列为掠夺性出版商的期刊上，21 篇发表在 2012 年 Beall 清单上被列为掠夺性出版商的期刊上，这些期刊存在 Beall 定义的可疑编辑行为，一篇文章发表在经分析发现是掠夺性期刊的期刊上。这些文章中有一半以上（58%）需要支付 APC，平均费用为 400 美元。
尽管过去十年掠夺性期刊的数量大幅增加，但很少有法国骨科医生选择这些期刊来发表他们的工作。这种提交情况可能部分归因于这些期刊难以识别以及作者对这类期刊缺乏了解。科研团队在向期刊投稿前需要检查某些标准：出版时间短和 APC 低应视为警告信号，而在接受后任何付款要求肯定会引起对期刊掠夺性性质的质疑。
IV；无对照组的回顾性研究。
