Do Preys Prey on Their Predators? Confusion over Predatory "Hage-taka" Journals
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- Takabe Kazuaki
- Division of Surgical Oncology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, USA Division of Digestive and General Surgery, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
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- Nagahashi Masayuki
- Division of Surgical Oncology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, USA Division of Digestive and General Surgery, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
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- Butash Ali L.
- Division of Surgical Oncology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Wakai Toshifumi
- Division of Digestive and General Surgery, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
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<p>For the last several years, predatory journals have been a topic of discussion in top scientific journals, such as Nature. 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 The Japan Medical AssociationJournal to be aware of and understand this issue.</p>
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- JMA Journal
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JMA Journal 2 (2), 200-201, 2019-09-04
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