Disseminating Knowledge: From Potential to Reality—New Open-Access Journals Collide With Convention

Research performance as a quality signal in international labor markets: Visibility of business schools worldwide through a global research performance system

“…3 These classifications are appropriate for IB journals and have been used by prior studies (e.g., Mangematin & Baden-Fuller, 2008). Clarivate Analytics works proactively to weed out poor quality journals, such as predatory journals (Harzing & Adler, 2016), from their JCR lists, which they do through journals suspensions and other quality control practices. This gave us confidence that in seeking to expand of view of the business and management field we will use reliable sources as a basis of our research performance metrics.…”

How Dentists Read a Technique Article: A Grounded Theory Investigation

“…The explosion of online journals, and open source publication in particular, has arguably increased adherence to the formal format of publication while expanding the range of tightly niched topic publications . This has led in turn to the growth of computer‐aided searching and systematic reviews that offer one filter (formal structure and scientific rigor) and the bundling of scientific offerings under publishers that sell services to libraries .…”

Marketing via Email Solicitation by Predatory (and Legitimate) Journals: An Evaluation of Quality, Frequency and Relevance

“…Numerous authors have commented on the emerging confusion and concern among scholars and librarians alike regarding the proliferation of these journals. In particular, concern has been expressed that the comingling of such journals with legitimate OA journals is, or already has, compromised or even "corrupted" the reputation of OA journals as a whole (Beall, 2012;Bjork, Shen, & Laakso, 2016;Bjork & Solomon, 2012;Butler, 2013;Christopher & Young, 2015;Ferris & Winker, 2017;Gasparyan, Yessirkepov, Diyanova, & Kitas, 2015;Harzing & Adler, 2016;Natarajan & Nair, 2016;Shahriari, Grant-Kels, & Payette, 2016;Shen & Bjork, 2015;Xu & Chau, 2014). Past analyses have included both broad analyses of the characteristics of predatory journals, including longitudinal studies of the volume of articles, and analyses of the journals' marketing, article reviewing practices, and journal longevity, sometimes even including "exposés" of specific suspect journals (Hansoti, Langdorf, & Murphy, 2016;Bjork et al, 2016;Manca, Martinez, Cugusi, Dragone, & Dvir, 2017;Manca, Martinez, Cugusi, Dragone, & Mercuro, 2017;Memon, 2017;Moher & Srivastava, 2015;Petrişor, 2016;Ray, 2016;Shamseer et al, 2017;Shen & Bjork, 2015;Wicherts, 2016).…”