{"id":45836,"date":"2019-10-08T14:22:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T13:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=45836"},"modified":"2019-10-21T15:09:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T14:09:23","slug":"edward-christopher-how-can-medical-students-avoid-predatory-journals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/10\/08\/edward-christopher-how-can-medical-students-avoid-predatory-journals\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Christopher: How can medical students avoid predatory journals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cDear Professor Christopher\u201d, says the start of the email. As a medical student with academic aspirations, being addressed as professor never fails to flatter and amuse me. Yet with time and experience, as much as I enjoy the erroneous title, I have learnt that emails that start with such greetings are either: addressed to the wrong person or invitations from predatory journals. As open access gains widespread traction, predatory journals pose an ever-present danger to authors, especially to publishing newcomers. The ability to distinguish real journals from predatory ones is therefore becoming increasingly important for aspiring medical student authors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So how did I learn to recognise emails from predatory journals? I <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">almost<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> learnt it the hard way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I received my first email three years ago. I was invited by the \u201cjournal\u201d to write an editorial on medical leadership, a field I hold dearly in my heart. I expressed my interest in writing and they quickly returned with an invoice amounting to hundreds of dollars. I grew suspicious. The journal claimed that the fee was needed to make the editorial \u201copen access\u201d, a term I was unfamiliar with at the time. A quick Google search defined open access as \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/preview.springernature.com\/gp\/open-research\/about\/what-is-open-access\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[the] free, unrestricted online access to research outputs such as journal articles\u2026usually associated with an article processing charge.\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It was during this same search that I came across another term, \u201cpredatory journals\u201d, defined as \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Predatory_publishing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">an exploitative, and typically open-access, academic publishing business model that involves charging publications fees to authors without checking articles for quality and legitimacy and without providing the other editorial and publishing services associated with legitimate journals.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d I was led to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/beallslist.weebly.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Beall\u2019s list of predatory journals<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, where the journal that had contacted me was listed. This was my road to Damascus. I realised then and there that not all journals are created equal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many of you must now be thinking: \u201cWhy on earth would you respond to such email?!\u201d\u00a0 But I had absolutely zero knowledge and experience in scholarly communications back then. We all have to start somewhere, and it is with this inexperience when most, if not all, medical students like myself first leap into academic publishing. Medical students ought to be aware of predatory journals, but in reality, many are not.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students are particularly vulnerable considering our limited experience in publishing practices and our \u201cpublish or perish\u201d mindset. The promise of a rapid submission to publication and their lofty titles make predatory journals an appealing manuscript destination to the untrained eye. Some predatory journals can be almost indistinguishable from legitimate journals to newcomers. I have met some students who submitted to predatory journals, whose hard work was wasted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So what can be done to curb predatory journals? I believe raising awareness is key. Predatory journals can often be identified with little effort\u2014their grammatical and spelling errors, erroneous greetings, and unusually active soliciting of submissions can make these journals suspiciously stand out. Learning about the existence of predatory journals\u2019 and the utility of tools such as <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/2019\/10\/07\/oapen-joins-think-check-submit\/\">think-check-submit<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/doaj.org\/\">Directory of Open Access Journals<\/a> should do the trick.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, there are situations when recognising predatory journals is not as straightforward. In these cases, seeking advice from senior colleagues is crucial. University librarians or supervisors can provide the insights required to distinguish borderline cases. Most importantly, you should not submit if they have even the slightest hint of hesitation, as their instincts are probably right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/predatory-publishers-are-corrupting-open-access-1.11385\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New predatory journals appear every week<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Medical student authors need to exercise vigilance and uphold research integrity from an early stage. Should you receive emails from predatory journals, it is best to delete the emails and avoid any associations with them. However, if you fancy lavish, albeit empty, compliments, keeping few such emails in your inbox will not do much harm\u2014as long as no actions are taken on them, of course. After all, when else would medical students be addressed as professors?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/10\/2018_Christopher-E_stanford-picture4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-45837\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/10\/2018_Christopher-E_stanford-picture4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Edward Christopher<\/strong> is a final year medical student at the University of Edinburgh and a BMJ Clegg <\/em><em>Scholar.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Competing interests<\/strong>: None to declare.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitter<\/strong>: @edwachristopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDear Professor Christopher\u201d, says the start of the email. As a medical student with academic aspirations, being addressed as professor never fails to flatter and amuse me. 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