Guidelines for selecting journals that avoid fraudulent practices in scholarly publishing

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1 Information Science Scientist, Isfahan, Iran

2 Progressive Science Institute, Box 5335, Berkeley, CA 94705, USA

Abstract

In recent years, scholarly publishing has been faced with many distractive phenomena. Generally, most researchers are unaware of fraudulent practices now common to scholarly publishing and are at risk of becoming a victim of them. Editors also need to have sufficient knowledge about these practices. There are papers that try to increase awareness of authors about fraud in scholarly publishing, but it seems that there is no good academic resource to direct editors. In this paper, we try to present a general guideline for increasing journal quality by discussing the emerging threats to scholarly publishing and methods to avoid being victimized.

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Interdisciplinary Journal of Management Studies (Formerly known as Iranian Journal of Management Studies)
Volume 9, Issue 3
July 2016
Pages 529-538

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