Predatory Journals – Contaminant for Evidence-Based Medicine

Abstract

Predatory journals are also known as fraudulent, pseudo, or deceptive journals. Such journals publish articles and claim to be genuine scholarly journals; however, they misrepresent their publishing practices. The term “Predatory Publishers” is coined by Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at the University of Colorado in Denver. He described these organizations as “who publish counterfeit journals to exploit the open-access model in which the author pays. These predatory publishers are dishonest and lack transparency