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    Lessons from the recent publication scams

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    Open access
    Authors
    Shah, Afroz Ahmad
    Date
    2014
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Citation
    Shah, A.A. 2014. Lessons from the recent publication scams. Current Science. 106 (5): p. 649-650.
    Source Title
    Current Science
    Additional URLs
    http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/106/05/0649.pdf
    ISSN
    0011-3891
    School
    curtin
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43510
    Collection
    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The article discusses growing number of scams by agencies, scientists and editors in publishing industry of China. It states that an authorship fee ranging from 1,600 dollars to 26,300 dollars, in journals indexed by Thomson Reuter's Science Citation Index, Thomson Reuter's Social Science Citation Index and Elsevier's Engineering Index. It mentions that that talent based system in academia can also motivate scientists to wrongly inflate their findings.

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