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Quality of articles published in predatory nursing journals
Marilyn H Oermann et al. Nurs Outlook. 2018 Jan-Feb.
Abstract
Background: Predatory journals exist in nursing and lack the safeguards of traditional publishing practices.
Purpose: To examine the quality of articles published in predatory nursing journals.
Method: Randomly selected articles (n = 358) were reviewed for structural content and eight quality indicators.
Findings: Two-thirds (67.4%) of the articles were published between 2014 and 2016, demonstrating the acceleration of publications in predatory nursing journals. The majority (75.9%) of the articles were research reports. Most followed the IMRAD presentation of a research report but contained errors, or the study was not pertinent to the nursing discipline.
Conclusions: Nursing research published in predatory journals may appear legitimate by conforming to an expected structure. However, a lack of quality is apparent, representing inadequate peer review and editorial processes. Poor quality research erodes the scholarly nursing literature.
Keywords: Knowledge dissemination; Nursing literature; Open access; Peer-review process; Predatory nursing journals; Publications.
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- Response to letter to the editor from Simpson re: Quality of articles published in predatory nursing journals (Oermann et al., 2018).
Oermann MH, Nicoll LH, Chinn PL. Oermann MH, et al. Nurs Outlook. 2018 Jul-Aug;66(4):350-351. doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2018.04.007. Epub 2018 Apr 18. Nurs Outlook. 2018. PMID: 29929864 No abstract available.
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