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recently, one of us (hr) submitted a paper for consideration to this journal. as per the normal editorial process of the JRCPE, the submission was run through iThenticate, the plagiarism detection software. This revealed no cause for concern. after peer review, the paper was accepted for publication, but during the copyediting and reference checking stage, a paper with the same title and author...

Ever since theWomen’s Dermatologic Society (WDS) Board of Directors voted in March of 2014 to establish a peer-reviewed journal, our leadership has realized how the advent of predatory publishing has affected the establishment of a legitimate medical publication. For example, in 2014, there were already approximately 40 different dermatologic journals but nonewith a specific focus onwomen’s ski...

Abstract Predatory publishing represents a major challenge to scholarly communication. This paper maps the infiltration of journals suspected predatory practices into citation database Scopus and examines cross-country differences in propensity scholars publish such journals. Using names “potential, possible, or probable” publishers on Beall’s lists, we derived ISSNs 3,293 from Ulrichsweb searc...

The competitive academic atmosphere of the higher education worldwide along with the current trend in producing research-oriented knowledge by universities has made research publication the first priority for doctoral students. In this study, we addressed the conceptions of purpose, process, and product of publishing research articles among Iranian doctoral students of applied linguistics. To t...

The digitization and related developments in journal editing and publishing necessitate increasing the awareness of all stakeholders of science communication in the emerging global problems and possible solutions. Journal editors and publishers are frequently encountered with the fast-growing problems of authorship, conflicts of interest, peer review, research misconduct, unethical citations, a...

Because they do not rank highly in the hierarchy of evidence and are not frequently cited, case reports describing the clinical circumstances of single patients are seldom published by medical journals. However, many clinicians argue that case reports have significant educational value, advance medical knowledge, and complement evidence-based medicine. Over the last several years, a vast number...

includes only OAP.[3] In fact, non-OA journals have also published ‘non-sense’ articles.[3] Moreover, the scepticism of Beall for OA model is noticeable.[3] It is in fact very interesting to read the viewpoints of both Beall and his criticisers.[2-4] We think that referencing to both the sides of the coin will help the readers to form an informed decision. Although it is a daunting task, we def...