How to Avoid Publication in Predatory Medical Journal

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How to Avoid Publication in Predatory Medical
Journal
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• What are Predatory Medical Journals?

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• Predatory medical journals are the journals
  that publish the research article without any
  peer-review of the article. These journals do not
  provide editing services and charge a fee for
  publishing the article. Jeffrey Beall first used
  the term predatory journal. These journals
  normally have quick turnaround time to publish
  the article as compared to other high-quality
  journals.
• Although Article Processing Charges (APCs)
  are also required for open access journals they
  have the process of critical peer review and
  editing services. Due to poor or absent peer
  review process, the quality of research articles
  published in predatory journals is poor as
  compared to high-quality journals. 

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How you should Avoid Publication in Predatory
Medical Journals?

• Publishing the articles in a high-quality medical
  journal gives a feeling of pride and escalation
  on the career ladder. On the other hand, falling
  in the trap of predatory journals may bring a
  feeling of disgrace, dissatisfaction, and
  embarrassment.
• Thus, it is important to identify whether the
  target journal is predatory or not. Although
  there is no set of rules that allows the
  researcher to instantly conclude.

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• Unscrupulous marketing tactics If you receive an
  e-mail with strongly persuasive language for
  getting your article published, critically
  analyze the available information about the
  journal. Publishing in such a journal may be a
  wastage of time and money.
• Poor quality peer-review and editing The
  predatory journals exist only for a motive to
  make money. To fulfil their motive, they are
  ready to publish almost every research article
  with a fee from the author. These journals have
  poor or no peer-review process. The author should
  avoid such journals as their authenticity is
  questionable.

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• Article-processing charges Most of these
  journals hide the article processing charges.
  After submitting and acceptance of the article,
  they suddenly send an unexpected invoice. Make
  all the cost clear before approaching these
  journals.
• Open journal or listed in the DOAJ Most of the
  authentic journals are open journals. These
  journals are listed in Directory of Open Access
  Journals. If the target journal is not listed in
  DOAJ, the quality of the journal is questionable.
• Medline indexed Make a search related to the
  target journal on the NLM catalogue. If the
  journal is not indexed in Medline, the quality is
  questionable. However, there may be other reasons
  for not indexing in Medline.

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• No credible website or clear contact
  information If the website of the journal is not
  appropriate with lots of grammatical mistakes and
  images procured from other sources, the journal
  may be predatory. Lack of clear contact
  information also creates doubt on the credibility
  of the journal.
• Deceptive title of journal If the title of the
  journal is similar to the title or older
  traditional journal or includes the terms world
  or global, make all your doubts clear before
  submitting an article.

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