Top biomed researchers caught out by predatory journals

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Majority of articles appearing in exploitative biomedical journals hail from mid or high income nations, and the situation is likely to be similar in chemistry

More than half of the journal articles published in predatory biomedical journals come from authors in high or upper middle income countries, according to new analysis led by researchers at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. The study’s authors believe a review of chemistry predatory journals would yield similar findings.